> It's not necessarily a _lack_ of housing, because housing _exists_. But, we have an epidemic of companies intentionally creating manufactured scarcity.

https://mtl.jinxian.casa/objects/019691c5-5cda-d1d5-a3a8-a57ba90c3242

It is both, IMO. This country has around 330 million people in it, up from around 280 million in 2000. We haven't built enough housing units for an additional 50 million people in the past 25 years.

That said, the various banks and corporations are making the housing crisis far worse than it otherwise would be. If USDOJ was doing its job, there would have been dozens or even hundreds of bank / corporate executives paraded in front of the TV cameras in orange jumpsuits and leg irons and locked up in the fiercest non-country-club prisons in the nation.

The shock would change the actions of the rest of them ... and maybe even make them unwilling to keep bribing congresspeople and state legislators to allow their rapacious ways to continue.