Oh there is an obvious solution, however Wall street financial, real estate corporations, and their media and politicians will fight kicking and screaming because it would greatly affect their profits and their power control. We never had this problem in the US until this was all set up during the Reagan era. If immigration both legal and illegal is greatly reduced it won't be putting constant high pressure on the most stressed levels of housing markets. Stop allowing wealthy non-citizen foreigners and real estate corporations and REITs, from buying up all these properties they then have unfair leverage to jack up prices on. The whole "we need to build more housing because their isn't enough" is a monstrous lie to deflect away from the real issues. There would be plenty of housing available if that were removed it from the hands of real estate corporations and REITs. By constantly buying up most of the available housing, of course it will continue to be scarce as well as keep prices high. Americans, too dense to understand the simple logic of what is occurring, have become manipulated fools.