Comment by WalterBright

I asked you for examples of market deregulation making housing more affordable at scale. I am not interested in your assertions about how the market works, but empirical data of your proposals leading to improved outcomes. Apparently you don't have any.

Those are the result of a free market. Zoning laws are the results of participants in a free market protecting their investments. Even in the absence of a government (if functioning markets could exist in such an environment) with which to create such laws, people would find other ways to do it. Rent control comes after rents in the free market have already increased to the point where people create political pressure to make these policies (if it's not the result of lobbying by investors).

You could temporarily make the situation better by getting rid of these laws and regulations, but over time they would just come back because in a free market the players that get such policies implemented get richer and win.