Could it be the author only read english articles? The assertion that no one in europe speaks about housing shortages does not reflect my experience.

There are no countries in europe who’s native language is english, and all online discourse would be in european languages.

( apart of course from the uk, but the author makes the distinction)

> There are no countries in europe who’s native language is english, and all online discourse would be in european languages.

And Ireland. Yes they also have the Irish language codified as primary in their constitution, but in practice 95% speak English, 39.9% claim some ability to speak Irish, and only 1.7% actually speak Irish daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ireland

IMO, one of the things Europe does wrong is something the US also does wrong: There's plenty of cheap housing around, it's just in Detroit, Liverpool, and Chemnitz. How do we make those places desirable to live in once more?

In Croatia, which is (and has been) seeing a tremendous rise in real estate prices, everyone talks about the high prices, but rarely can you hear about about housing shortage. Indeed, building new housing is sometimes brought up as one of the reasons for rising prices.

The economic illiteracy is just that bad.

Actually, just typing any search query with a member of the eu and “housing shortages” does bring up results, so this assertion is even more bizarre