Nothing you said is inconsistent with “the government has arbitrarily made housing more expensive because that’s what the voters want since most of them stand t

Nothing you said is inconsistent with “the government has arbitrarily made housing more expensive because that’s what the voters want since most of them stand to gain from their most valuable asset increasing in value.” As time goes on the old methods stop raising the value and newer ones are needed. Eventually this process leads to insane regulation as all the “easy” stuff is already done.