Boarded up businesses, urban wastelands filled with poor people suffering in the streets with nowhere to go… and it is not solely due to the pandemic — I spent a couple months worth of driving through California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon in the past year. Some of what I saw was vast empty spaces without trees, urban decay, vacant lots filled with abandoned vehicles, unaffordable urban sprawl, endless houseless encampments under freeway overpasses…