As someone who works in homelessness and foreclosure this episode was chilling and sad.
Look, I get it. These are very serious topics and the writers cannot be faulted for soft selling them - especially when directed at kids.
But I know too well the numbers of actual children out on the streets with a parent or legal guardian. And in hiding these very real issues in a kids show were everything is "fixed" in an ending right out of It's a Wonderful Life is understandable, but ignores all the kids who are not going to be saved by their neighbors "pitching in" and buying their house out of foreclosure.
Look, I get it. These are very serious topics and the writers cannot be faulted for soft selling them - especially when directed at kids.
But I know too well the numbers of actual children out on the streets with a parent or legal guardian. And in hiding these very real issues in a kids show were everything is "fixed" in an ending right out of It's a Wonderful Life is understandable, but ignores all the kids who are not going to be saved by their neighbors "pitching in" and buying their house out of foreclosure.