It seems like this is a common theme in every city these days - people are forced out of their neighborhoods by high RE prices and as a result high cost of living.

Perhaps one way to address this could be to modify outdated landlord laws - make it so it is prohibitively expensive to be a landlord in a major city or to be a landlord period. There is no need for landlords these days, its an outdated concept that must die off, just like landlords from centuries ago.

Also, perhaps introduce rules prohibiting city transformation into one big "shopping mall".