They are already getting taken care of. They chose to live in a high cost of living area. You don't get to complain that you retired in NYC or SF and Social Security doesn't pay your rent.
For housing in a city, it makes sense to me to always increase supply such that every place in the USA costs the same. This allows people to move freely, it allows people to congregate with other smart people and have "intellectual density", it allows wealthy investors to live next to struggling bohemian artists, and allows the average Joe to experience all of this just by virtue of existing in that place. I understand there are constraints on land but it's bizarre to me that people have accepted the idea that these places are just naturally "HCOL" locations and not that they have been homogenized and sanitized into this type of place.
> They chose to live in a high cost of living area.
Millions of people are born in HCOL areas and make their lives there. We shouldn't ask them to leave.
> Millions of people are born in HCOL areas and make their lives there. We shouldn't ask them to leave.
then they should make more money
> then they should make more money
Like this, this is such an incredibly simplistic response that it feels more naive even than a statement like "everyone should be able to live in a big city". If everyone simultaneously makes more money it just changes who is priced out. The current game is zero-sum, I am saying it should not be.