They don't share legal system, cultural norms, or attitudes towards housing...what they share is delegated authority on planning and high levels of population g

They don't share legal system, cultural norms, or attitudes towards housing...what they share is delegated authority on planning and high levels of population growth. There are countries in Europe with identical systems but do not have the same issue because population growth isn't high enough. There is nothing to generalize from. You don't need to construct a weird theory about the media (you will notice the other replies, for some reason, have this very odd theory that all English-language countries are the same...the UK doesn't even have one legal system in the country).