The huge expense of housing is due to insane NIMBYism that somehow gets tied to progressive policies. Protect the children, the forest, the neighborhood. There'

The huge expense of housing is due to insane NIMBYism that somehow gets tied to progressive policies. Protect the children, the forest, the neighborhood. There's enough laws going around to protect everything that nothing can change at all. And it may or may not be intentional that this housing shortage increases property values. My theory is that red states distaste for regulations discourages everyone from weaseling housing policies for their own interest. Housing is definitely cheaper in cities within red states. And in my experience there's less homeless, which may be directly correlated.