Comment by 7e
Building more housing is not going to do anything. It is at most a temporary salve. Once people have housing they reproduce, creating more demand for housing. Building more housing is like building more roads: not a solution to anything, in fact, only encouraging the problem to get worse.
Building more housing now may in fact cause people to reproduce more, which will create more demand for housing... in 20 or 30 years. Well, in 20 or 30 years, we can build some more housing.
And even if we don't... solving the problem for 20 or 30 years is not nothing. It's worth doing.