Tiny houses might not, but a wholesale decommodification of housing could. We shouldn't be trying to price housing on the market, we should be pricing housing

Tiny houses might not, but a wholesale decommodification of housing could. We shouldn't be trying to price housing on the market, we should be pricing housing and land based on how well it houses people. If we started taxing the land rather than the land plus improvements and gave a credit for every housing unit I guarantee you we'd see parking lots turned into housing. Other approaches include: removing minimum parking requirements, rent control, strong tenants unions, stronger eviction protections, publishing landlord statistics on eviction rates, low rise distributed public housing with protected operating budgets, right to buy laws, prohibitions or increased regulations around short term rentals, support for community land trusts, up zoning, tax incentives for increasing the affordable housing supply, and yes, mother in law apartments, cottages, and other permissive zoning for additional housing can help too. There are very tractable ways we can chip away at this problem at a local and regional way. We shouldn't be speculating on housing as an asset, we should be ensuring everyone has a place to live.