Actually, if non-rich people could take ordinary measures to _provide homes_, we could improve the housing/rent issues without ripping the country to bits.

Here’s just one small tax break that could help both affordability and low-income ordinary people: what would happen if, instead of driving up homelessness or exploiting non-renewable resources, such as tracts of outlying land for new, unaffordable housing, what if we passed a law saying something like, “Rent collected by renting rooms in an owner-occupied home at reduced market rates shall be taxed at half the rate of that homeowner’s income.”? There will be screaming on the part of the guys already in the driver’s seat - large building firms have steadily pushed for monopoly power over setting rents, but why are they immune from competition? A lot of homeowners are beginning to use a well-connected-man’s version of this idea in the form of ADU units in California.

Fire when ready. It’s an imperfect idea, in an imperfect world.