It would also be nice if we would stop voting for politicians that promise policies that limit supply - either directly and explicitly such as zoning laws, or as a consequence like rent control.

That happens because most people are property owners so the politicians want to keep them happy first.

> It'd be great if people didn't have to get creative to find basic housing where they want to live

FTFY.

There is plenty of basic housing. It just happens not to be where people are looking most of the time.

Since when did housing become a right?

1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_housing

You mind if I crash on your couch for a while?

Yes I do. But I also pay council tax and my local authority provides social housing.

Since society decided it’s better to create housing than to allow an army of homeless people to burn the world to the ground.

1948

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Hum...

Since the UN was founded, and human rights were stated.

To which court are you going to appeal for redress when those rights are not upheld? The UN declaration of human rights is nothing but an aspirational fiction.

Better an "an aspirational fiction" than nothing, or less than nothing under Putin.

A bit earlier than that, actually:

[In 1917] the government spearheaded great changes in people’s lives, starting with housing. The Soviets nationalized private property and started the so-called “уплотнение” (housing compaction), giving rooms to working-class families in large central apartments that used to belong to [previous owners]. Note that renters were “compacted” too. This project officially laid the groundwork for the often bizarre kommunalka housing - a resilient symbol of the Soviet past. https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/331621-lenin-putin-soviet-rus...

So you are having problems looking for a 2bd apartment for a family of 3? What about one room in an apartment with a bath shared by 4 other families?