You’ve hit the nail on the head: it’s hard to make housing more affordable without reducing the amount of money people charge for housing.

Or, like any other commodity where there’s a market imbalance, you address supply issues and prices come down.

I’m sorry but “everyone gets a free house” isn’t particularly realistic or interesting. It’s like when people say the trick to ending war is “no more countries are allowed to go to war!” Cool that’s nice but…