Alice in housing economics wonderland

We cannot have a productive conversation about housing when we use words to mean whatever we choose them to mean, especially the word "supply"

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
’The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

An increasing academic and policy focus on housing supply has unfortunately not brought wit…