Comment by goethes_kind

You cannot fix housing. It is simply demand and supply. The problem to address, which is more fixable, is to incentivize employers to move to less popular areas. As an employee I also do not want to live in the largest metropolitan city. There is one distinct advantage of living in such a city, which is that finding new jobs is easier. But everything else just sucks, and I do not live 365 days a year looking forward to the day I need to find a new job.