TL;DR: "Damnit, we don't need more housing! We need hand wavey arguments about the injustice of the current system with no actionable solutions! That way the va

TL;DR: "Damnit, we don't need more housing! We need hand wavey arguments about the injustice of the current system with no actionable solutions! That way the value of the home I bought in 1980 can keep going up and I can keep feeling smug and morally superior without actually doing anything!" Places that build enough housing to keep up with demand have lower prices. Denying this simple fact is willful ignorance on the same level as the crap you hear from the far right about womens' reproductive health. "Housing prices aren't related to supply" is on the same level as "a woman can't get pregnant from rape." Hate to be so blunt and combative but we're going on two generations being economically ruined by NIMBY-driven real estate hyperinflation. No, housing has never been perfect but it was far more affordable 25 years ago before the post-2000 housing bubble that never really came back to Earth. From what I've read Canada is much worse than the US since housing prices are similarly high but salaries tend to be lower.