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Lack of houses by a construction industry that has been doing for years what the car industry has been doing over the last two is what causes a lack of housing stock. Capitalism is the problem since more money can be made with the same resources if you build expensive houses that people invest in (rather than live in) and there is never a lack of investment because house prices go up because there is so much demand and so little supply of REASONABLY priced housing that people have to rent and so landlords make all the money that can continue to drive up house prices that construction companies have no incentive to make small profits from affordable housing and instead rack up huge profits from unaffordable housing. Just like the car industry did in the US over the last couple of years... why make small profits from cheap cars when high profits from fewer expensive cars more than make up for it... and then people have to buy more expensive cars because cars is not a luxury in the USA, it is a necessity, like housing, and the only reason that this continues is because people seem willing to continue to buy more and more expensive cars!?!? Ditto houses... at least rich people... and who cares about the poor, certainly not the government *sigh*

Capitalist economics 101.