[Steve_Seattle]

"expensive housing"

The most expensive housing in the country is in areas where the political culture is controlled by liberals: Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, etc. Liberals are hostile to development, penalizing it, taxing it, even preventing it, so this is no accident. The goal of the liberal elites is for them to have the nice houses and expensive condos and to force everyone else into "affordable" tenements.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Excellent point. If there weren't so much NIMBYism and government regulation, housing would be much more affordable - without the need for any govt. subsidy!

[metesky]

Plus about 1/3 of the cost of housing can be laid directly at the feet of gub'mint, what with this permit, that permit, review boards, mandated materials, historic districts, new code restrictions, etc.

As usual, the libs and goober'ment create a problem, then proceed, with ooga-booga nostrums, regulations and "good intentions", to make the problem worse.