Yes. People are flooding desirable areas, and developers (and some politicians) would like to keep trying to fight the locals to get a piece of that pie, even i

Yes. People are flooding desirable areas, and developers (and some politicians) would like to keep trying to fight the locals to get a piece of that pie, even if it means harming those areas, rather than developing outward and stopping foreign buying. Then the resulting house-price crisis is pointed to as the reason they should be given free reign, but that's circular reasoning. That's "negotiating with terrorists". After that, the next thing blamed is the issue of wealthy Americans using housing as an investment in high-profile areas, which takes up the public consciousness despite being such a small part of the problem. The homelessness crisis is mostly unrelated, and the subset of it that is related is not related in the ways for which people use it as an argument. Again: Build outward. Get businesses to spread out.