The Housing Crisis and the Free Market

What is known and knowable about the shortfall in housing stocks is that it did not emerge from so-called free market capitalism, where people are free to buy and sell whatever they own. Rather, it arose from the systemic shock to the global economy caused by, among other factors, the COVID pandemic, short-sighted economic policy and the perverse incentives which that policy created

Wesley J. Du Preez

Mar 30 2023

8 mins