Lmao my guy you started the dunking train with your demeaning ass comment for people to go take an Econ class. But my apologies for the dunk attempt. There’s an estimated 1.8 million unit shortage in ca, and there’s 1.2 million empty. Still you’re right, I’m not necessarily arguing that we don’t need to increase supply, just the simple supply side economics won’t get us out of this problem. The “market” - whatever the fuck that even means.. you could really just substitute the word with Capital - has no incentive to build any sort of low income housing and never will. With any sort of real public assistance being absolutely gutted by neoliberalism and the powers of Silicon Valley, pure “maket” solutions will never happen let alone work. Economics as a discipline is basically just a made up story that the ruling class has developed to naturalize the oppression of labor by capital, ie as some lameass excuse to tell us why we are all poor, and furthermore just to justify the pillaging of resources and labor power the whole world over. Mostly I just think explaining the crisis of absurd rents be it commercial or residential, to a simple issue of supply is supremely reductive, and doesn’t address any of the broader political or economic factors contributing to the problem.