Why is housing so expensive? When the far left passes laws making it very costly to build new apartments and houses, builders stop doing new construction. This constricts supply and demand grows and causes prices to shoot up.
Then in response, the far left seems even more control and passes rent caps. Landlords respond by quitting upkeep on their buildings since there is no money for it and ghettos are created. Good tenants move out of the area and bad ones move in. Or landlords remove their rentals from the market, constricting supply even further.
We need to delete all the regulations and bureaucracy around development and construction if we want truly affordable nice housing for everyone.