A Liberal's Idea of "Structural"

Again NY Times. In an opinion piece about homelessness, liberal columnist Farhad Manjoo opines about the "structural causes of homelessness" which he defines as "underdevelopment". This is because he doesn't understand the meaning of structure. Or he does but wants to keep his job and so obfuscates instead. As an intelligent person he of course notices there is plenty of development. It is just obscenely unequal, or what a Marxist would call uneven. Farhood does notice that there are untold numbers of people who are working "full time" ( to be considered worthy, you need to work 40 hours a week!) but are still unhoused. His solution is to give to charities, the classic liberal response, especially around the holidays. In this ideological construct "there will always be poor amongst us", just a sad fact of life, and so the fortunate ones give to the less. And then write virtuously about it. Nothing feels better than giving and that's the whole point ,isn't it? Feeling better? The "structure" is actually the way society organizes production and allocation. It is the property relations developed over centuries. NIMBY vs YIMBY is the result of the structure. Local zoning codes and the so-called "politics" around them are the result of the structure. Don't confuse cause and effect. We all know that Farhad goes to plenty of homes where each family member enjoys five or even ten thousand square feet. Where they each have three or four bathrooms. Homes that you could fit hundreds of tents in. But he never writes about that little issue.