An increasingly national problem has consequences for the quality of American family life, the economy and the future of housing politics.

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By Emily Badger and Eve Washington

San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington have long failed to build enough housing to keep up with everyone trying to live there. And for nearly as long, other parts of the country have mostly been able to shrug off the housing shortage as a condition particular to big coastal cities.

But in the years leading up to the pandemic, that condition advanced around the country: Now Springfield, Mo., didn’t have enough housing. And then Appleton, Wis. And Naples, Fla.

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