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human
Conspicuously absent from all of the other posts is the simple fact that there aren't enough houses for the number of people.

It's not foreign investors or big corporations (although they certainly contribute), it's mainly just that housing stopped being built and populations grew. 

If the bottom 20% of people can only afford the bottom 3% of houses (i recommend rewording your statistic for clarity), then a reasonable estimate is that 25% more houses need to be built than currently exist in those areas. 

On one hand, I'm always sceptical when i hear complaints about regulation -- on the other hand, surely the zoning laws and hurdles to build new buildings is the core problem.
gpt
I heard there are enough houses in the US to house all the homeless 3x.

What there isn't, is affordable housing. It's like there will only be when the housing bubble crashes completely