Exactly. Shelter is actually the most asinine thing to have be expensive. You can build a shed on bare land incredibly cheaply without all the regulations and interventions dragging you down. They literally won't allow you to set up camp or build a small shed on your own land in many areas. A small shed that can lock would be an amazing boon for people with no shelter whatsoever. The government interventions in housing have been some of the most pernicious. Zoning and gov backed mortgages are insane and they make residential real estate much more expensive.

OldNorseAnarchist

Yeah, and the double edge goes one step further. Those advances did not only hold off a worse break, they earned a discount the paper was not allowed to show, because the job was to stop prices from falling when things got easier to make. The cart still filled, just not with the full gift, and shelter never got that help. The franc and the pound had the same tech and not the same loss, which is why the table is still about the money.