Ideally the free market would take care of this. But homeowners have been able to hijack the market through rent seeking behaviours that tightly regulate housin

Ideally the free market would take care of this. But homeowners have been able to hijack the market through rent seeking behaviours that tightly regulate housing. It's very hard to break the market dominance of land owners. Until someone can develop a palletable political solution to do so affordable housing will have to be government mandated or provided. Further there will always be a segment of the population who can't afford to house themselves (note this is much smaller than those who can't afford housing due to the dysfunctional market). As a society we should be looking out for people who need extra help. Edit: I'm getting downvoted on this. That's fine, but can someone explain what I said wrong?