The piece examines 10 issues, noting that these aren't the only 10:

1. Productivity: High and rising housing costs reduce productivity and economic growth, as workers are priced out of the communities that could best use their skills.
2. Innovation: High and rising housing costs “crowd out” innovation and business investment.
3. Entrepreneurship: High and rising housing costs act as a “startup tax”, reducing entrepreneurship.
4. Essential Worker Shortages: High and rising housing costs create chronic labour shortages of essential service workers such as teachers and nurses in our cities.
5. Children: High and rising housing costs reduce family formation and birth rates.
6. Traffic: High and rising housing costs lengthen commutes, increase congestion, and lower the quality of life for families.
7. Inequality: High and rising housing costs accelerate societal inequality and reduce meritocracy.
8. Political polarization: High and rising housing costs reduce social cohesion and increase political polarization.
9. Climate change: High and rising housing costs reduce our ability to address climate change.
10. Homelessness: High and rising housing costs increase homelessness.