> Unlike the developing world, the developed world is perfectly capable of building a house for every man, woman and child.
The trick isn't building n houses. It's building n houses where people actually want to live. Oh, and also the bit where the houses should be of the kind people actually want to live in. The UK, as you are no doubt aware, but for quite understandable reasons you neglected to mention, ran with pretty much exactly that idea in the decades following WWII. To the extent that solved anything, it was in a strictly numerical sense.
The trick isn't building n houses. It's building n houses where people actually want to live. Oh, and also the bit where the houses should be of the kind people actually want to live in. The UK, as you are no doubt aware, but for quite understandable reasons you neglected to mention, ran with pretty much exactly that idea in the decades following WWII. To the extent that solved anything, it was in a strictly numerical sense.