We need to remember that the main factor in the increase of housing prices is the lack of supply. The increase in prices has led to the expected supply response: an increase in the number of building starts. This rate, which was 30,000 units per year, reached 44,000, which is a significant increase.
But the public delivery system is usually most apathetic where the public is poorly educated, of low social status, and disorganized, so monitoring by the poor is also unlikely to be effective.