the driving force of western economics for the last 45 years has been conservative. Ie..
Spot on.
We forget that when there's adequate housing supply, there is less profit to be made by grifters.
Not sure how it is where you are Barney, however northern England is being taken over by HMOs. Big ones in old pubs etc and some close to doss houses and little ones in small residential streets and some also a low standard but above all destructive to already poor neighborhoods whiich lose large parts of their settled population and gain transient people, there for a year or so.
A real poverty indicator.