Your theories about cheap housing being a boon for everyone is hardly a thorough, long-term analysis. Plenty of history shows that constructors will cut corners for profit and build unsafe and/or unattractive housing that is ultimately a negative impact on an area. There are also other problems with lack of restrictions, like how it is easier to tear up and build over virgin land than pave over old developments. This is the reason the industry is regulated. There’s no need to prove that to ourselves here on once more - has that theory worked recently in other countries?

Do you have any evidence or logic to demonstrate that people are inadequately houses currently due to over-regulation and not one of the other dozen factors? Such as (germane to the topic...) low wages relative to high prices, which can result from many economic causes such as interest rates, immigration and income disparity. For example, there’s plenty of housing being built in Denver right now, for people who can afford $2000 a month for a small apartment. The only factor stopping them from building apartments for $1000 a month is a profit motive, in that upscale developments have a higher margin. How would you propose to change that by deregulation?