"Nurses, policemen and shopping clerks cannot afford living in the capital anymore" is a problem that transcends the US. Prague is pretty tranquil and does not

"Nurses, policemen and shopping clerks cannot afford living in the capital anymore" is a problem that transcends the US. Prague is pretty tranquil and does not have any rioting. It also has a major housing affordability problem. I believe the common denominator are the NIMBYs, who can very efficiently mobilize all sorts of environmental and other regulations to achieve their goal of ossifying everything.