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The balance of this research firmly supports the YIMBY analysis that legalizing more housing development in supply-constrained cities will ease the housing crisis. But despite the growing evidence and the shifting politics of housing, intra-left debates over the crisis remain oddly stuck in place. To supply skeptics, YIMBYs are still “market fundamentalists” pursuing a right-wing, deregulatory agenda. Their technocratic, market-based plans cannot possibly end the housing crisis; the only solution is massive public investment and decommodification.