re: Can cities ever actually fix their housing shortage?

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This assumes you don't wish to build any more houses.

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More suburban sprawl is what's needed. Part of the reason that the government is importing so many immigrants is that we have low birth rates. We need affluent suburbs with room to actually grow families instead of packing everyone into tiny apartments in the inner cities.

Maybe they can make all the homeless people live in the politicians’ houses as roommates until the politicians figure out a way to make them stop living on the streets and building big nasty homeless encampments.

Stop allowing the homelessness problem to persist and blaming it all on “systemic racism and injustice”.

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Is there any actual way to fix this or is this just how life is now with increased population?

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We've had American slums since before there was a United States. Even when we had more room than we actually knew or could really dream about to stretch our legs we piled people on top of each other. It just is what it is with a city population.

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Go start cracking skulls in ghettos and make those areas safer for everyone to live, and the housing shortage goes away on its own.

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This. If inner city areas were viewed as safer, more would live there.

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2 people who make a combined $75k a year shouldn’t be buying houses. They should live in apartments or a rental. It is what it is.

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I bought my house in 2005. Right now, comparable homes in my area are renting for more than what my mortgage is.

Yes they can...

1st, you allow for Fentanyl to pour into the cities and then allow for drug users to inject the shite everyday in broad daylight without any of them getting in trouble.

2nd, you allow all of the Fentanyl users to overdose on the drugs so that it kills them all.

3rd, you rinse and repeat this until the very poor pollution has been cleansed leaving room for only rich people who can afford the houses.

Reopen factories in the US in the smaller towns that are mainly abandoned. How many towns dried up after NAFTA? Plenty of housing near the old fruit of the loom factories in Louisiana. Same with the small textile and furniture factory towns in North Carolina. That would pull immigrants away from the city and open up housing options.

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Why are the uninformed typically the loudest and most opinionated?

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From The US Government Accountability Office:

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High interest rates and low inventory are contributing to this issue, as is the growing number of millennials, who are looking for larger homes to raise families.
For low-income Americans, the hunt for affordable housing can be especially tough.

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This is exactly what I said. There are homes out there to buy. They’re are apartments out there for people to live in. The problem is people don’t want to live within their means and think they should alway live in the best area, the best neighborhood, the best complex, etc.

A starter home is fine for someone 25-30. You can raise a family in a house under 2000 square feet. People who want a larger house based on want and not actual need are factored into the housing crisis simply because they just want a bigger home.

Low income people don’t make enough to own a home. That’s not something to be ashamed of, it’s just a fact of life. These people are factored into the housing crisis because they want a home. But just because they “want” a home it still doesn’t make financial sense for them to buy no matter what inventory is out there.

Umm