> a command economy, with all housing owned and doled out by the government. That just doesn't work, anywhere, ever. We need a shared definition of "working" t

> a command economy, with all housing owned and doled out by the government. That just doesn't work, anywhere, ever. We need a shared definition of "working" then. There are plenty of ways to disincentivize low-density real estate development and incentivize high density and affordable housing, and all of them involve regulation and tax reform to control the market to some degree. This post apparently assumes any non-free-market structure that "doesn't work" would be a worse outcome than we have currently, where there are more vacant homes than homeless people.