The Housing Famine

The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem

We use the term “housing crisis” a lot. Sometimes “housing shortage” or “housing crunch” or just “housing problem.” With the exception of “shortage,” all of these terms are somewhat vague. The most-used is probably “crisis,” which is both vague and alarmist. “Crisis,” like “fascist,” is one of those words which only really indicates that the person usin…