You can't really build affordable and convenient car-dependent style housing (think single-family suburbs) for everyone because they take too much space. So you'll always end up with the situation where well-located houses are outrageously expensive and you get cheaper by buying something much further out. Essentially people are willing to pay a premium to no have to drive for a long time to get anywhere.
The only reason why conveniently-located suburbs were ever affordable (think 50s or 60s) is because most people back then didn't have a car yet, so the demand wasn't saturated.
"I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!"
As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it's just too tough financially in the modern world, so it's never a really serious discussion.
Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.
We don't really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it's a bit of a different discussion.
At least europe it has kind of switched to the opposite in recent years.
I did a doctorate in physics and women had a much easier time finding PhD/post-doc positions because there is just much more funding available.
Most groups in my institution were majority women.
Professorships are still nearly all men, but that's largely down to the sexism of the previous generations (back in the 60s-90s when they got their positions). This will slowly shift in the coming decades.
They've been building big public housing since the 1920s. I live next to a lot of it and it's quite high quality and really pleasant.
Lots of cities/countries has massive public housing (the UK being a great example post WW2) but Vienna is more of an exception in that they didn't follow the trend in the 70s-90s of privatization and stopping investment (although it did slow down at one point).
They were the same way about their tram system, where they kept it rather than ripping it out like most places. Now everyone else wishes they so had a tram network or is trying to rebuild one.
That being said, rents are rising here too, but they are much more reasonable to begin with.
I was living in London previously, and now we spend about 30-40% less for a place over twice the size and in a nicer location. Plus finding a place was muuuuuch easier, since it's noticeably less competitive.
Every time I take my bike I'm amazed at how many car drivers don't follow (or don't know) the rules about overtaking safely.
You only get to pass me if there is plenty of space and it's absolutely safe for both of us. Just because you're in a car doesn't mean you're entitled to squeeze past and nearly run me over.
I also think there are bigger issues with the current system, but that's an incredibly naive way of looking at it.
Brainwashing is much easier than you think, and social media has made it so much easier to run such psyops campaigns. There will always be some issue you can get people riled up about.
The west is just completely unprepared to deal with military-level budgets being used to push destabilization their societies though social media.
MMOs are the reasons that my typing style involves my left hand covering 60-70% of the keyboard and my right hand getting the remaining 30-40% that I can't easily reach.
Only need to bring in the mouse hand of absolutely necessary!
I remember just after all this kicked off last October there was an interview with an ex hamas guy (who is now an anti-extremism researcher) about what their plan was with all of this.
He mentioned how their plan had always been to force a reaction from Israel and then use social media to build support among specifically both the Muslim diaspora and progressive non-muslims in Europe/NA.
The worse it gets in Gaza, the better it is for Hamas. Their support in Gaza goes up, and they gain additional support abroad, while Israel loses support. Win/win/win
The two are closely connected.
You can't really build affordable and convenient car-dependent style housing (think single-family suburbs) for everyone because they take too much space. So you'll always end up with the situation where well-located houses are outrageously expensive and you get cheaper by buying something much further out. Essentially people are willing to pay a premium to no have to drive for a long time to get anywhere.
The only reason why conveniently-located suburbs were ever affordable (think 50s or 60s) is because most people back then didn't have a car yet, so the demand wasn't saturated.