Nearly everyone agrees that housing costs too much. So, what should we do about it? President Barack Obama addressed housing affordability in his DNC speech, declaring, "If we want to make it easier for more young people to buy a home, we need to build more units and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people in this country." While it is encouraging to hear Obama and others at the DNC talk about today’s affordability crisis, we, as conservatives, must recognize that there is a right way and wrong way to go about fixing it. Instead of pressing for collective action, a better approach is to remove federal, state, and local governments from the equation to the greatest possible extent and let market forces determine the quantity of housing supply needed, the price point and incentives required, and everything else.
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