>>1450078>Why are you looking at rent when the discussion is about home prices?The OP is about rent as that's what is relevant and realistic to people seeking "affordable housing" as many have shit credit.
>Rent is always going to be pretty expensive because of what it is.No rent is only expensive because of the litigious liability it puts landlords in and the expensive ass codes and taxes and housing association fees to cover those. In the 19th century you had "poor houses" where you could stay for (almost) free and they were much safer and cleaner than modern homeless shelters and still turned a profit or at least were self sustaining.
Now those kinds of services are only relegated to charities that can afford the jew loicenese or government orgs or NGOs. Your average bloke cant just open a boarding house so that there would be less homeless and the immgrant workers didnt have to bunk up illegally at the worksite. And boarding houses were super common all the way up to the 1980s when regulations and socialists btfo them so they could gain support for an authoritarian nanny welfare state. For example William Burroughs lived in a boarding house.. today he would have been homeless and rely on government services, sad!