How are people being 'denied' affordable housing? Do you mean to say that your ideal location is more than you want to spend? Did you find a place to live that was affordable and someone denied you from buying it?

In many places it is literally illegal to build anything but the most expensive type of housing, due to single family zoning.

What is making you live there?

How about a job? Even if it takes over an hour for your commute.

How about close proximity to family and relatives?

Sure, you can move to middle-of-nowhere Texas, and buy land for cheap, but how are you going to pay for that cheaper mortgage, if there are no jobs around? Maybe you can get a telecommuting job?

The question here is what constitutes someone being 'denied' housing. Is needing to live with roommates being 'denied' housing?

Those goalposts gave me whiplash.

The person I replied to said housing was being 'denied' to millions. Living somewhere with expensive housing, whatever the reason, is not being 'denied' a place to live. There is an enormous amount of entitlement that goes in to thinking not being able to live somewhere already extremely desirable is being 'denied' a place to live.

They were merely exercising their human right.

Yes, true. They were exercising their own right to vote.

However, at some point, their votes interfered with the human rights of others. At what point does the government and society step in, and say, enough is enough?

I'm very much sympathetic to those who can't afford housing in the prime areas, but housing in prime land is not a human right.