absolutely. there is a ton of reasons, a wide range of factors.One of the reasons that there is a housing rental shortage is that people are changing their long term rentals to AirB&B.
but overall it won't ever be fixed because all the people making the money are the ones pulling the political strings.
now if the market had crashed and burned, maybe there would be desire not to have it repeat. but then again it would trash our economy and i would be jumping the ditch and crashing on aussie cuz's couch.