"Oh, looking at this it is worth remembering that NIMBYism and real estate prices are one of the biggest drivers of inequality in the world." I am not sure tha

"Oh, looking at this it is worth remembering that NIMBYism and real estate prices are one of the biggest drivers of inequality in the world." I am not sure that is the case. Certainly the growing inequality between the falling middle class and the increasingly rare upwardly mobile class could very well be due to the factors you cite. But the biggest inequality (both globally and locally) is between people who have literally nothing - as in, zero dollars - and people who have (anything more than zero). Even if you live at the poverty level and have no assets you are still infinitely better off than someone with nothing. That inequality gap is not due to zoning laws or illegal sublets or OMI evictions or whatever.