it's spreading elsewhere and it's deliberately engineered
Supply and demand is deliberately engineered? That's news to me! Or do you think that the fixed supply of land (especially when discussion certain levels of development (rural vs suburban vs urban, etc)) and the increased demand that comes with larger population numbers are all controlled by the above?
Don't get me wrong, the urban side of things definitely is, especially with "muh 15 minute cities" crap, but you're purporting this is happening across the board. And to an extent it is, but you're ignoring the increased demand of a larger market than what was around 20 years ago. Housing prices increasing, especially in high demand areas, is an inevitability and one that cannot be controlled for without authoritarian design (allocated housing for all).
When people fight over the same thing, be it a good, a service, even a job, the person that's doing the selling gets to benefit off this by getting better offers. Housing is no different in this regard.
Mass migration is artificially increasing the population, overall native births have gone down and this is just a statistical fact because young people in the west just aren't having babies anymore and getting married. The elites are taking advantage of the situation and are essentially people traffickers that are importing cheap disposable labour and they don't care how many communities they end up destroying as a result.
Oh and I haven't even mentioned hyperinflation, I'm somebody who does political and military wargames in my head for lulz that make the 'experts' look like amateurs and I would not be shocked if we see governments doing exactly what you're thinking of seizing property under the guise of solving the housing crisis. We're already seeing the rhetoric pop up with democrats who are pretty much telling landlords house migrants or else. My first thought is in the UK at least we're probably going to be seeing some form of nationalisation happening to the utility companies as a way of 'combating the cost of living crisis' then they'll start addressing housing bit by bit.
I think all of this will largely depend on what happens in 2024 and if there's any huge backlash by the public, currently we're in a bit of a lull at the moment in political activity despite the noise.
Supply and demand is deliberately engineered? That's news to me! Or do you think that the fixed supply of land (especially when discussion certain levels of development (rural vs suburban vs urban, etc)) and the increased demand that comes with larger population numbers are all controlled by the above?
Don't get me wrong, the urban side of things definitely is, especially with "muh 15 minute cities" crap, but you're purporting this is happening across the board. And to an extent it is, but you're ignoring the increased demand of a larger market than what was around 20 years ago. Housing prices increasing, especially in high demand areas, is an inevitability and one that cannot be controlled for without authoritarian design (allocated housing for all).
When people fight over the same thing, be it a good, a service, even a job, the person that's doing the selling gets to benefit off this by getting better offers. Housing is no different in this regard.
Mass migration is artificially increasing the population, overall native births have gone down and this is just a statistical fact because young people in the west just aren't having babies anymore and getting married. The elites are taking advantage of the situation and are essentially people traffickers that are importing cheap disposable labour and they don't care how many communities they end up destroying as a result.
Oh and I haven't even mentioned hyperinflation, I'm somebody who does political and military wargames in my head for lulz that make the 'experts' look like amateurs and I would not be shocked if we see governments doing exactly what you're thinking of seizing property under the guise of solving the housing crisis. We're already seeing the rhetoric pop up with democrats who are pretty much telling landlords house migrants or else. My first thought is in the UK at least we're probably going to be seeing some form of nationalisation happening to the utility companies as a way of 'combating the cost of living crisis' then they'll start addressing housing bit by bit.
I think all of this will largely depend on what happens in 2024 and if there's any huge backlash by the public, currently we're in a bit of a lull at the moment in political activity despite the noise.
We need authoritarian design.