Fish Tank Thinking is where your thinking is so constrained by some artificial walls that you cannot actually ... well actually think. It is the wages stupid. Let me repeat that. It is the wages stupid. What happens when a society is so brain washed that it cannot even consider that if you don't pay people they can't afford housing. Or cars. Or medical care. Or food.
If you actually have some desire to consider the problem rather than discuss how many angels can dance on a pin head, start with considering why "Inflation" is not a measure of anything thing, but rather the sound of one hand clapping. What is the other hand? Wages.
In this country rather than fixing wages we are discussing solutions that make things worse. Let us add tariffs so that people can buy less. Let's create tax incentives that create more housing people cannot afford, with the tax incentives coming out of the pockets of the people who cannot afford that housing.
Because if you fix wages, you fix inequality, and inequality is the entire goal of this coup.
While I 100% agree that there are wage issues, the question with housing is why it's growing faster than general inflation.
House prices seem to be increasing fastest in places with high incomes. This leads me to believe increasing incomes wouldn't solve this particular problem.
You seem to be guilty of Fish Tank Thinking here yourself.
Housing costs are not divorced from the laws of supply and demand. Raising wages creates increased demand for housing, but you still need the supply! Raising wages without increasing housing supply will just make housing more expensive.
Exactly! This video goes into this phenomenon more in-depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GLfxaYTYI&t=2s
This has actually been a known issue for over a century with Winston Churchill even commenting on it.
If wages go up, housing will assuredly go up as people outbid each other. Wage stagnation is a problem, but it's not the solution to the housing crisis. People would still be unable to afford homes as they get outbid by people who have slightly more than them.