Comment by fc417fc802

What I'm describing is a systemic dysfunction due to financial incentives.

The "crisis" is specifically the high cost of housing. So if whatever you do doesn't lower the price then by definition you've failed to solve the problem.

It's certainly a dichotomy but I don't see how it's false?

> We can easily build twice as much in high cost areas (with the strongest job markets) with little impact on existing home owners.

It's certainly possible to encounter nonlinear behavior. If some aspect has saturated then we might build quite a bit without seeing any substantial price movement. But eventually prices would start to decline.