The cost of renting apartments and purchasing homes has risen dramatically in the past several decades, and on the surface, addressing the issue of affordable housing would seem to be yet another issue on which any sort of bipartisan solution is impossible.

No doubt, at a time when Beto O’Rorke is ridiculously declaring that everybody has a right to live close to work, and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is proposing the federal government guarantee that rent gets capped at 30% of salary, there doesn’t seem to be much room for negotiation.