People don't want "affordable housing" they want subsidized housing so they can make more money

There's a huge difference between affordable housing and subsidized housing, and if the zeitgeist is to be believed they are the same thing. Just because a person can't afford something doesn't mean you pretend that person can afford it. They can't afford it. Neither can most people.<br><br>You only need a google to see all the crumby apartments with astronomical prices next to them. This isn't a different issue than food or rent, you don't need to pretend it is. Everyone needs a place to sleep and everyone needs food. You pay for them accordingly or society collapses.<br><br>When you start talking about the government building "affordable housing," you are talking about the government buying land and building homes, then renting them out at a subsidized price or letting people live there for free.<br><br>Put aside the fact that 75% of the US landmass is empty. You could put every homeless person on earth out in Nebraska and they could all have a house the size of a football field. No, the problem is putting land in the middle of cities that are on the ocean or in other high demand areas. <br><br>We could easily build enough homes for everyone out in the middle of nowhere. But the problem is the cost of acquiring land and building on it to get a house in a city. So you either give everyone in a city a house for free and pay all the costs yourself, or make everyone move to the middle of nowhere.<br><br>There are no other solutions.