We could house them all in a small fraction of the space if we mandated renting to be done in apartments rather than wasting space in houses. Everyone should be

We could house them all in a small fraction of the space if we mandated renting to be done in apartments rather than wasting space in houses. Everyone should be able to work toward owning their own home and banning non-efficient renting would do just that. We're really just building houses for the sake of making some greedy landlords richer. In fact, there is almost no difference between what we're doing and Chinese ghost cities that were built for artificial demand. However, I've only ever met severe disagreement when I bring this up. I don't know if it's clear or not but for me (and probably most of everyone who frequents HN), keeping the status quo will continue to make us richer. I'm very clearly arguing against my own self-interests because I don't find low-efficiency renting to make the world a better place.