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Ha, that's definitely not what I'm saying. There absolutely is a crisis of affordability and an obvious shortage in major cities. The heavy focus on market supply, though, means many are currently overlooking other factors that have a greater effect on affordability.
The best YIMBY studies I've looked at tend to celebrate reductions in price from new supply of between 1–3%. That's positive, but even using their numbers we couldn't physically build enough to reduce prices back to 1990s levels. When looking at the historical average of 7% increases per year for 30 years, or roughly 800% since the 90s, 3% isn't going to touch the sides.
Building needs to happen, it just won't fix affordability.
One more:
https://x.com/ianmulheirn/status/1788105965188849667