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The only real solution is a large base of social housing. This creates a ceiling for the pricing of private property because it has to then remain somewhat competitive with what the state provides.

In the US at least, the housing crisis is really a crisis of social policy. The privatization of worker pensions (many service workers have nothing) and inadequacy of social security has forced us all to look to private housing wealth as our only stable source of longterm security.

Obviously we aren't. Some of us are big established capitalists.

I can't read the article as it's behind a paywall, but we don't have a supply crisis - we have an affordability crisis housing should be seen as a public good, but we've got two generations who've lived with it as an investment. getting out of that mindset will be challenging, to say the least

Yes that's what the article says, and it's not behind a paywall.

This is why neoliberalism is much more than just a defence of markets - it's a political anthropology which seeks to remake humans in the image of the market. We all become homo economicus. The self becomes a hollowed out, debased, shrunken shell.

Yes! Going into all this in my next book...