A Boring Dystopia

First of all, 9% is a HUGE number, far large enough to start influencing prices, and it is growing quickly. That 9% will be more like 20% within the next few years. We can see the trend clearly, do we really have to wait until it is an irreversible problem before we even acknowledge it, and then abandon hope for a solution because it's too late? Or maybe we say, "Hmm, 9% and growing? That's going to become a problem, maybe we should do something about it NOW."

Secondly, good for your state or whatever who is putting controls on building. My state, and my area, is not. I travel the entire east coast for work, and traffic in Central Florida, where I live, is easily the worst on the East Coast (the only competition is the DC-Baltimore stretch at rush hour, I avoid it at all costs), and they can't build huge housing developments and apartment complexes fast enough, and dump more cars on the streets. And just this week, they just announced that the Mormons, who own a giant tract of land east of Orlando, are going to build an entire new CITY, with a population that will rival Orlando. The state has already approved a new TOLL highway that will connect the area, and that new Toll road will run through two protected conservation areas, which the county is not happy about. In Florida, conservation land is really important...until you have to build on it.

Of course the state is happy to cooperate with attracting a few hundred thousand Mormons to Central Florida, diluting the Democratic voting strength in the last Democratic stronghold in Florida.

So nice try, but your experience is not what's happening in MAGA regions of the country. They are using housing to service the only MAGA constituency - the wealthy.