The Housing Shortage Isn’t Just a Coastal Crisis Anymore

, who travels the country as the chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, warned of that confluence of problems before the pandemic.

“Over the last four or five years, every place I go, they cite underbuilding,” he said. The exception is communities that have been losing population (although they may need new or rehabbed housing, too, to replace homes that become uninhabitable). “Everywhere else,” Mr….