It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.

The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?

I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.

As a transplant Bumfuckian for well over a decade now, no you can't. It's only cheap if you're bringing your income or savings account from a non-bumfuck region.

I'm saying that people should live in geographic place that is Texas, not necessarily in the political construct that is Texas. Because I wouldn't want to live in the latter either.

Nothing. I didn't say it was, did I? I just said that the US has an awful lot of space on this planet that is home to all of us and still can't manage to house people.

Come to think of it, I said everything besides space was the issue, didn't I?