> Sure, we'd like houses to be cheaper

People that can't achieve home ownership right now want houses to be cheaper.

People that already got theirs don't. Yeah, supply is a problem but it's more than that. Housing cannot both be an investment and broadly affordable, those two goals are in conflict.

We need to change the way we treat housing so that it cannot be used to both store and generate wealth.

Yep, that's a good pointer to why those annoying restrictions survive.