The price of a house should go down in time, just like the price of a car goes down in time. Or the price of any other good.
The price of a house should go down in time, just like the price of a car goes down in time. Or the price of any other good.
However, artificial demand must be dealt with as well, or we overbuild resulting in a bunch of empty homes. Another disadvantage to only dealing with the supply side is the prices of building materials will be unnecessarily high due to additional artificial demand from investors building homes as stores of value.
Finally, supply side only solution creates a potential nonlinear event where investors dump once the homes start to depreciate. A seesawing which the Fed has bolstered with artificially low rates across many asset classes. Not necessarily a bad thing altogether for the housing asset class, but it seems inefficient from a resource standpoint.
In principle the supply side has natural constraints, but they are easily 2 times above what has been built until now.
You can think of it this way: the population density of Manhattan is about 27000/km2. The entire NYC has a density of about 10000/km2, while Jersey city has 7000/km2.