> Sounds like prices would also come down if the government built or bought housing and then set the prices. Yes, if the government built literally millions of

> Sounds like prices would also come down if the government built or bought housing and then set the prices. Yes, if the government built literally millions of houses, then prices would come down. That costs a bunch of money though. Instead of that, we can get private developers to build literally millions of homes, if we just made it legal to do so. We can get all of that for free. > than waiting for market forces There is no waiting here. Just make it legal for them to do so. Stop preventing them. Yes, if we make it illegal for private developers to build millions of homes, then they won't do that, because it's illegal.