But people do want to own homes, but the problems is debt and the fact that homes are seen as a way to accumulate wealth. Affordable housing clashes with that.
Also, the article seem to treats building a new road as an unalloyed good.
It's worth having a discussion about whether this makes sense and is something to strive for.
Unfortunately, because society has been based on this for so long, the people who spent their lives paying off a 30 year mortgage would never agree to make any changes that would reduce the value of their house. You'd need to come up with a plan to transition away from a house-based model of wealth over a long enough period of time where current home owners don't get screwed but people know what it means to buy a house now.
And I don't think any plan that's long-term enough to be sensible could actually survive politics long enough to be successfully implemented.
Also, the article seem to treats building a new road as an unalloyed good.