Tiresome. Left-wingers will continue to make up wilder and wilder economic conspiracy theories to explain away the "so-called housing crisis" because the obvio

Tiresome. Left-wingers will continue to make up wilder and wilder economic conspiracy theories to explain away the "so-called housing crisis" because the obvious solution -- building more homes for more people -- admits the possibility that someone might make money building homes and selling them, which they find ideologically distasteful. "Building more homes won't solve the housing crisis, because [ landlords, immigrants, greedy developers ] will buy them all up!" is a popular rallying cry against even attempting to build more homes. But a more honest statement of their complaint, "building more homes won't solve the housing crisis in its entirety without additional measures to help the most vulnerable" would admit that building more homes is absolutely part of the solution, not part of the problem.