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by Can_Not 3092 days ago
The other user probably did understand supply and demand. Consumers being priced out of the housing market can be a market failure. And in this scenario, it is a market failure. For every homeless person living in the street, there are 6 empty homes in the US, but a couple with 2 jobs and a down payment can't get approved for a home loan? Most definitely there is a market failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure