[shit_game]

More tradespeople don't make more housing, capital and legislation do. Both capital and legislators (a disturbing number of whom are either landlords or realestate tycoons) are perversely incentivised to keep housing supplies low because that creates a market in which housing appreciates and generates more income than a market in which housing is plentiful.

[tsunamifury]

This isn’t just housing. After Covid the entire market for everything complex or needed shifted to demand side.

Build less charge more applies to practically everything.