Comment by EliRivers

If the alternative - that people pay an absolute fortune just to make their own houses liveable - comes out worse, seems like a good option to me. The Great God market isn't magically going to make ordinary people's lives better and the USA, despite appearances to the contrary sometimes, isn't meant to be a Dadaist art project in which everyone dedicates their lives to seeing what happens when you let "the market" do anything it likes.