If this even worked in the short-term (and so far, no city that has tried this has been successful in making a meaningful dent in the problem), you&#x27;d just be delaying the inevitable, <i>and</i> once that inevitable hit, the affordability problem would be <i>even worse</i>.<p>You can&#x27;t increase housing supply without affecting demand. You also can&#x27;t increase housing supply to meet demand ... unless you actually make the area so undesirable that demand itself drops, meeting you halfway.