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Both can be true at the same time, and are:

Housing costs in the US are much more complicated than consumer supply and demand measurements indicate

The US housing supply is embarrassingly ancient, overpriced (especially considering condition), and deficient in volume (especially given quality).

You don't really have an argument when $1500 gets renters baseboard heating in a 40+ year old building in a secondary city.

> platitudes

> reddit/liberal hive-mind

Do you hear yourself?

As I understand it the "liberal hive mind" believes the exact opposite - that some bogeyman, typically either corporations or foreign investors, prevent functional supply and demand dynamics. Therefore they don't support a free market, typically more right-leaning, solution of deregulation and relaxed zoning restrictions.