Housing is a capital G, Government, issue. There are geo-political forces at play that make it hard to deal with housing rationally. The first starts at the border; you have to ensure you can count accurately who is coming and who is going (as well as who plans on coming and who plans on going). This doesn't mean lock down the borders. It means understanding the inputs and outputs. Which leads to the next force. Homelessness.

We must have sensible laws and process from those who are unhoused. Is it financial, medical, psychological, addiction, abuse, etc? Each of these has a different solution; and the law needs to have enough teeth to enforce those solutions.

It's a gradient of solutions. If you fall out of a bracket, there should be a more affordable bracket that is humane. The threat of living on the street doesn't help anything. Plus, in California alone, enough has been spent to solve the problem tenfold. I suspect devious forces at work behind that....

So we've controlled our population inputs / outputs from one vector, we've put a cap on homelessness, we now need....... affordable, mass, fast public transit.

Look, we all can't live in NY or by the beach or in all the fun places. Uprooting the entire economic system is a no go with too many unforeseen consequences. Supply is only way to possibly lower the costs in desirable places, but you are competing against the world.

The bare-minimum is that from anywhere in the country you live. You are not far from fast transportation. Bullet trains and things of that sort. That means you can actually develop farther and farther out, but still have those people participate in the main hub's economy.

If you sort those things out, you will allow people to decentralize and will force commercial entities to do the same. This will put immediate pressure on the already over-stressed commercial real estate market. Once that relents, we may see the cost for housing come down everywhere.