"Yes", to a great degree. But if you had the kind of power to decisively crush all the NIMBY, rent-seeking, etc., etc. interest groups that you'd face over the housing problem...then you'd already be somewhere between "absolute dictator" and God-Emperor. So "fix everything else" wouldn't be all that much of a challenge anyway.
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Finding the lever or short-circuit to effect that change is probably the real challenge here.
There are countries or cities which _don't_ have a widespread housing crisis. Tokyo and Berlin are frequently touted.
There was a recent article series at Sightline which addressed this:
https://www.sightline.org/series/winning-abundant-housing/
One of several excellent reading suggestions that turned up in a thread by Shane Phillips:
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ShaneDPhillips/status/14741930881...