Reply #156: The major problem is that

[ProudDad]

It's capitalism at work...

There's more money to be made by building war toys than building affordable housing.

The sharks and leeches building "housing" make more money at lower cost by building huge monstrous single-family dwellings or crap-condo's than building affordable housing for the rest of us...

There should be a HUGE, WPA type government program to design, develop and build affordable, human scale housing.

Housing became a "commodity" in the late 70s (at least in California)...like pork bellies or AT&T stock. Houses no longer represent housing but reflect the flipping behavior of a minority of leeches and sharks who sold to one another jacking up the prices with each flip...

It would take a massive government effort to change houses back to housing...