I believe this to be the most pressing and important question of this election cycle and our community's greatest current need.
There is no one solution to this crisis and we need to take the greatest of all ideas and allow them to work in symphony for the common interest.

Reducing red tape for developers to expedite process and lower risk/cost (ie. 18 months to be approved/rejected is too long), expanding opportunity for multi-family building, stop adding mandatory and subjective costs until units intended to be affordable housing are no longer so, incentivize mixed model housing that parcels out units designated for intended-use purpose (ie. low income or affordable housing set aside in every new build. This will also help address some of the intersecting social issues like supporting those in or seeking recovery), are a few places to begin.

We also need to look to other countries who have experienced this kind of housing crisis and addressed it effectively in the past instead of trying to do what has historically always been done.

And we need to do these things yesterday.