Japan doesn't have a housing crisis. I'm in a great location in Tokyo, the rent is under $750/month, and it's been the same for the decade+ I've been in this specific place.

If there's a problem, it's too many empty homes in aging rural areas. Cities are doing just fine, even with a growing population in Tokyo.

The global issue is that elected representatives are becoming weaker.

The idea that a city hall would need to organize some sort of public meeting before approving a construction project is a fairly new one. The city council is elected to represent the people. If they need "community input" why are they even here? (Nevermind the obvious problem with such participatory process - sane and normal people can't participate in every local government decision unless it's their job. Hence why we have representative democracy.)

If you told someone in the 1980s that the British parliament couldn't impose its will on QUANGOs and local governments to build a rail line, they'd look at you as if you were insane. Parliament's power is supposed to be absolute. Yet that's what's happening with HS2.

UPD I'm wrong about Japan. Thanks for pointing out.

Add UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands to the list of countries with housing crisis.

> Housing crisis is observed in almost all what is called "first world" (europe, japan, usa).

You mentioning Japan gives out that you maybe don't know what you are talking about.

> I believe that 90% of the issue is more global than a regulation.

Or maybe the case it, that also globally most urban areas tend to develop a version of excessive regulation.

Is there a housing specific crisis? Or is inflation impacting housing like it impacts everything?

And excessive regulation is the norm in all of those (at least US and EU, no idea about Japan).

Japan does not. But it's also the place that didn't (fully) decide to try to keep it's population growing into perpetuity with migration and also has some other more unique market and monetary conditions.

Most of the first world has a habit of mimicking the US.

where is the housing crises in japan?