The more governments "focus on housing", the more prices rise. Rent control is rife with abuse and pushes prices up elsewhere, and governments tend to heavily restrict zoning and building regulations so that builders can't build.<p>If someone wanted to build ultra dense skyscrapers in NYC with very small apartments for poor people it would never be allowed.<p>Compounding the problem, once people "make it" and own a house, they vehemently vote for NIMBY policies to preserve their house's inflated value.<p>The thing that damns this article the most is the claim that minimum wage improves opportunity, a fact so clearly wrong it's almost as if they're pretending it has never been tried and failed repeatedly.