...among other things: years of not building enough housing, plus cost disease on the prices of housing construction, plus Airbnb eating into housing supply, plus most new development being in unwalkable subdevelopments or sterile 5-over-1s* so that the demand for anything walkable gets blown through the roof. I think that's the list?

Edit: oops, how could I forget anti-development zoning and Nimbyist development codes that prevent private solutions?

* I would love to know the actual name, or a good derogatory name, for that type of apartment; they're not all 5-over-1s after all. The real problem is the lifelessness, and that the ground-floor businesses, when they do exist, tend to be depressing and corporate, such that people don't want to pick them over older construction that is better integrated with neighborhoods.