This is an excellent point, but I would add that it's not just liberals. There are some older leftists, ans even some younger leftists, that have embraced housi

This is an excellent point, but I would add that it's not just liberals. There are some older leftists, ans even some younger leftists, that have embraced housing austerity as a way to spite developers. Which unfortunately enriches landlords and homeowners far more than it's hurts developers. And whose money is doing the enriching? A lot of it comes from those who are barely scraping by, and those who can't scrape by are displaced from the state.