Building more houses might be easier, but it's incredibly difficult nonetheless, at least if we're talking about affordable housing. There is tons of housing being built in my area, but it's all for the wealthy. Literally nothing is being built for anyone who isn't rich.

And what affordable rental housing exists is increasingly being purchased by investment groups who then squeeze them for every dime, squeezing out the very people who need that housing in the process.

The housing crisis really looks to me like an aspect of the serious wealth inequality problem we have.