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The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.

Weirdly, we understand this intuitively with cars and understand that buying used is the solution. Nobody demands that car companies manufacture a quota of "affordable" models

Cars don't appreciate in value like houses do.

They would if we regulated cars like housing and strictly limited the number of desirable cars that can be built.