Why don’t we make all housing more affordable by drastically increasing the supply of housing? How do you do that you might ask? Look at that list of blockers a

Why don’t we make all housing more affordable by drastically increasing the supply of housing? How do you do that you might ask? Look at that list of blockers and uncertainty. Stack rank them by importance and start removing them. If we want more affordable housing the answer is supply. And if we (god forbid) decide we want the government involved in building it we should copy the one place with an inarguably successful project. That’s Vienna. It astounds me we can be this bad at picking policies that lead to the outcomes we actually want.