"We're not building enough housing; that's why prices are up."
That's true to some extent but that's not why prices skyrocketed recently. We haven't been adding hundreds of millions of people each year. This has been an ongoing problem for decades.
It's price gouging and investors intentionally pushing a market bubble as high as possible.
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