> we still can't keep up supply with demand Are you even sure that this is true? I'm French and I've been hearing the construction sector complaining about to

> we still can't keep up supply with demand Are you even sure that this is true? I'm French and I've been hearing the construction sector complaining about too low supply for my entire life to eventually learn in my 30s that we in fact have an ever increasing record number of empty houses… > One key thing to understand is that private companies build homes, not governments. You say this as if it was some law of nature, but it's not: states are completely able to build housing, it's just a political decision not to and leave the private sector do the work. And given that we've all been living in a “housing crisis” for post of our life, we can empirically conclude that the private sector is unable to provide enough housing. > Surely the entire western world would not have this problem if it was a simple as a policy change. As long as entire western world shares the same political ideology and have the same power structures, there's no wonder they face the same issues. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results