the.com/housing crisis
everyone needs shelter, nobody can afford one, and somehow it's still a market.
means a persistent gap between housing costs and incomes, caused by scarcity, regulation, and demand colliding in cities that stopped building.
from traces to postwar zoning laws designed to control growth, which quietly evolved into machinery for blocking new housing altogether.
root causezoning restricts supply more than demand grows
global patternsame crisis, from tokyo to toronto to berlin
paradoxempty investment homes coexist with homelessness nearby