What an economically illiterate article. The answer is to get the government out of the regulation and taxation business. Everything government has done for decades tends to reduce job creation and wages. Add on to that insane greenness, political correctness, mandatory this and that and its easier to take the jobs to China. Reverse that and people will go back to buying their own homes.
C'mon....poor girl's rent just got jacked and she strugglin'. Why, she has to stay home now and eat (and cook much worse!) to make ends meet instead of going out to meet and dine with her city elite friends.
I mean she really tried here. Teachers, police, those working servants? Threw in a LBGT's cain't move because of redneck queer haters. Threw in some gubmint BS price index data....all kinds of useless information. All but what really caused all this. Just as you said.
Nothing destroys house stock more effectively than rent control, except aerial bombardment, or arson.