The fix is to enshrine remote work for jobs that can be remote (labor regulation and whatnot), enabling labor mobility to where housing is affordable, but the ideological challenges prevent that. So, instead, we gnash teeth and say there is no solution while we slowly build more housing stock and hope that'll catch us up eventually. It will, eventually, as immigration slows, and the death rate exceeds the birth rate and household formation (see: Japan), but that will take time.

To destroy housing values to increased affordability, you must destroy locality as a value factor.