a lot of that is equity firms, but we're not building comblocks either so the alternative is legacy housing that's unobtainably expensive or renting forever. Developers need to be prevented from building that shit, but people don't have a lot of agency in housing,

well, yes, again, but then also again: how do EVs change the equation here?

there's like a hundred things that need to happen all at once, very few US politicians are interested in making any of them happen, and in the meantime we might as well have electric cars instead of SUVs.

there's no in the meantime. All the needed changes I assume we agree on could be done in the now, but they won't be, and they also won't be once you exchange every ICE car for an EV because why would you? The system can keep on trucking fine with EVs instead of ICE cars, why change?