>>The amount of housing deficit we have in the United States will never be aided by building more apartments Then... How? What are we missing? :) Also. We ha

>>The amount of housing deficit we have in the United States will never be aided by building more apartments Then... How? What are we missing? :) Also. We have to be careful of causation VS correlation VS confounding factors. I. E. If your area was undergoing gentrification and That's why developers built more apartments, that's the true explanation for rise in prices. And still those apartments in your area may have relieved pressure somewhere else! Going from one specific personal experience to global math is tempting but tricky.