The other user brought up that the cost to build a home has gone up substantially, and this response seems more like an addendum onto what you were already sayi

The other user brought up that the cost to build a home has gone up substantially, and this response seems more like an addendum onto what you were already saying rather than a response to that. Just fyi. I think there is inherent truth to what you're saying as well, in that business decisions more often than not seem driven by the dangling carrot of short term profits. But there can be a multitude of reasons why the cost of a house is just out of reach to what we used to consider the "average middle class American."