[ksec]

I think it has more to do with world wide's low interest rate which is pushing asset prices to sky rocket.

You now get a fast shrinking middle class and dismal living condition in lower class.

Of course, they could have combated this with more supply. Not sure if they have done so.

[mrep]

Low interest rates certainly allow you to afford a more expensive home, but inflation adjusted price per square foot isn't actually skyrocketing for most of the US outside of the west coast [0]. For example, Dallas/Fort worth and Houston metro populations, the 4th and 5th largest in the US have both grown a whopping 19% in the past decade and prices aren't skyrocketing there. But they have plenty of land surrounding their cities that can be developed to increase the housing supply.

It just seems weird to me. Why are people paying such high prices when there is farmland so close by that you could buy and use to build some condominiums, townhomes, duplexes or even single family homes.

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/