Yes, more can be done to ease the cost of real estate. For instance, building more affordable new homes, will certainly compete with the price of the used homes on the market, that are out of control.
Starting prices for all new homes should not start at prices that require new owners to make $250,000 a year just to be able to qualify for a new home.
So building more affordable houses is in dire need right now. Not every person wanting to enjoy the American Dream of owning a home needs a McMansion with a 3 car garage, and that seems to be the only New Homes that become available today due to moratoriums put in place by certain municipalities today.
Municipalities today are too much drunk on REAL ESTATE TAXES while creating huge swaths of building only new homes with HIGH LOCAL TAX bases, that prevents the building of lower priced affordable homes that more meets the public need for working class families.
Many municipalities also have moratoriums that prevents the building of High Density Housing which allows rental prices to run out of control as well, and is a a huge contribution to the Housing Crisis today.