These aren't towns at issue. The housing problem principally occurs in metropolitan areas with more than 3 million people that have existed for more than half a

These aren't towns at issue. The housing problem principally occurs in metropolitan areas with more than 3 million people that have existed for more than half a century, and in most cases longer. Many of those areas have a high incidence of homelessness, regular evictions and a trend of housing prices such that the per-unit cost to live there has grown much faster than inflation for the past several decades. Therefore, people are trying to address the real, visible problems in these major cities. A major city is a complex system, and in order to manage it, you need people with credentials, and not incurious dismissals like "stop moving to California".