If regulations for building houses were compostable to those for building computers...

Just think you had to ask the most opinionated people in your town every time you want to get a new computer and potentially ask people in your neighborhood when you want to make minor changes to you existing computer...

Houses got bigger faster than they got cheaper. That's on top of land going up in value.

Given that land and the like is a limiting factor, the only way to get it cheaper is to develop the middle of the US (assuming it's about the US anyway), and / or to go upwards.

But that too has limits; megacities like Singapore have built upwards for decades and is still one of the most expensive places to live.

And another factor is that landlords and investors will resist oversupply. This is where China went wrong, billions have been invested in brand new cities that are effectively ghost towns; preparing for an influx of people that never came.