Are Roommates The Answer To The Housing Crisis?

Or, are consumer preferences infallible?

I saw this interesting piece—“Unlimited Housing Would Literally Be Hell (According to C.S. Lewis)”—from Andrew Berg, who writes on co-living as an element of fixing our housing crisis.

Berg’s point is not that increasing the housing supply is bad, nor that it shouldn’t be done. It’s more that consumer demand is not infallible and is not a raw fact of nature. Some e…