The problem, of course, is the general worsening of things—things being housing, and the weather, and the State of It All. The problem is private companies springing up every other week to mishandle the business of dealing with it and siphon off funding in the process. The problem is the fact that there’s no money, and nowhere to put people, and the fact that they’re working on a skeleton staff with no time and no way to do more than they’re already doing. The problem is all this, but also a recent and much sharper decline.
