Given his lack of interest in HUD, it’s no surprise that Morning in America was also Twilight of Housing. Thanks to Reagan’s draconian housing cuts, homelessness, which had historically been a temporary problem during economic calamities, became chronic. According to Peter Dreier, the director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College, “Every park bench in America—everywhere a homeless person sleeps—should have Ronald Reagan’s name on it.” The Gipper’s
