> we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock. It’s really not “the government” but existing homeowners and espe

> we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock. It’s really not “the government” but existing homeowners and especially old ones. Many politicians would love to add housing and especially density because that boosts businesses, tax revenue, use of local services, etc. but the idea that your house is going to pay for your retirement has a lot of people afraid of changes which could lower their valuation, and that makes it extremely hard to get things like zoning laws changed.