Back in Jimmy Carter days, the liberals still viewed home ownership as part of the American dream, a natural aspiration for working- and middle-class people, and a source of financial security and intergenerational wealth.
The left today doesn’t care. The activist left is actually hostile to private homeownership and wants to shift the norm to apartment living. The cubicle rat woke stormtroopers prefer to live in central cities anyhow, and many of them are down on the idea of having kids.
Making housing unaffordable serves the same goal as making gasoline and automobiles unaffordable.
You speak the truth.