"The government" isn't to blame for making it hard to build; that's the fault of countless local governments run by a bunch of NIMBYs. The national government

"The government" isn't to blame for making it hard to build; that's the fault of countless local governments run by a bunch of NIMBYs. The national government has nothing to do with it, and the US is set up to give way too much power to state and local governments, so the federal government is mostly powerless to improve the situation.