Back in the 80s, the capitalist system reign supreme because of its free market economy. It championed itself from all facade of life such as housing. It was a common term by the capitalist nations to say that the communism economy did not value its citizens because the communist system would provide accommodation to people. It took away their choice and limited their choice.
Now, it is 2019, and the communist economic system is dead, and the capitalist system came to triumph over communism. Now, people in the capitalist world are begging for affordable housings, and governments are playing games with their people that the price of the house is high because of immigrants rather than dealing with the housing situation. Government says. Eventually, the price of housing will come down. It is just a matter of time. In the main time, people are not able to pay their rents, they are becoming homeless, people are doing drugs because they are in situations that they cannot deal with and using drugs to escape from their ugly realities.
Perhaps, we should begin to move toward Cold War Era time or communism to fix the situation of housing.