Houses are super expensive because they’re in short supply. They’re in short supply because there are numerous laws constraining what can be built. For example someone might see profit in building a complex of 100 apartments, but the zoning says that land can only contain houses on half acre lots. So where you could have maybe 150 people living, instead you get 6 people there.

Supply is artificially constrained, and so prices go up. We desperately need a free market for housing.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Theyre in short supply because of artificial scarcity, which benefits the people who own and rent land. The government loosening building regulations would not fix the fact that it is more profitable to create artificial scarcity.

Also you're pretending like the government is in opposition to landlords. The leech class owns the government, that is why the term "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" or alternatively "democracy of the bourgeoisie" was invented.