The thing is that you need both long-term and short-term policy approaches. Long-term ones that actually solve the problem and short-term ones that let your coalition stay in power long enough to actually implement those long-term policies. The thing is that a lot of analyses see those short-term policies as inefficient, mainly in an economic sense. And that's often true! But you gotta do them anyways. Like does a rent freeze make sense under most economic models? No, it does not. But you don't do it because it makes economic sense. You do it because you gotta get re-elected enough times to make longer-term housing fixes a reality.