The government has a choice between there being enough housing to serve as a supportive foundation for more sophisticated economic activity, or placating privat

The government has a choice between there being enough housing to serve as a supportive foundation for more sophisticated economic activity, or placating private interests that don't see fit to build that housing until an arbitrary profit can be made. States and the federal government should be building housing. Directly. Loss-leading, if they must. Sorry to the real estate magnates who would be impacted.