I don't see 1031 exchange mentioned much in the discussions of housing problems. People who own real estate absolutely lose their shit when this is brought up as something that should go away which is by itself a pretty good indicator. There's so much tax collection being 'lost' on this it's something that should be repealed but likely won't.

I have also noticed that although people are recognizing their is a massive growing homeless population in all cities, particularly the west coast, it gets pushed away as just a bunch of drug users on fent, instead of realizing the bulk of these people became homeless in the last 3 years as housing and rentals have blown up in costs without wages matching.

There's so little resources for the people at the bottom suffering homelessness, the only thing keeping a lot of people housed right now is the soon-expiring eviction moratoriums.