West Virginia’s housing crisis is getting worse. Lawmakers put solutions on the back burner.

West Virginia’s housing crisis is getting worse. Lawmakers put solutions on the back burner.

Less than a two-hour drive from the nation’s capital, Berkeley County has become the epicenter of West Virginia’s housing crisis as its population booms. Rising home values and increasing rent prices have made it harder for families to keep a roof over their heads.  English teacher Jennifer Unger lives in Martinsburg but recently started teaching across the state line in Maryland. She said she needed higher pay to keep up with the rising cost of…