Scarcity and Slack

The housing crisis is a mismatch of price, product, and place—and consumers already know it. 

For a decade, the American housing debate has run on a single word: more. Build more, and prices fall. Build more, and the crisis eases. It is a satisfying story, because it names a shortage, and shortages have obvious remedies. But the numbers coming in for 2026 complicate that story in a way we can no longer wave off, because the market is now doing something a simple shortage does not do.

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