Yep, that sort of capture is definitely one of the major causes. It is designed to prevent working people from being able to build wealth through sensible development that they can actually control. Everything has to run through huge developers and big projects that average people have no hope of participating in or holding power over.
This is why I’m trying to make the point that it is not a single problem issue. The market alone isn’t going to solve the problem even if you remove corrupt situations like this as you said. But it’s also not going to solve the issue just to address “greed” by whatever regulatory mechanisms that might take shape as.
Supply is absolutely part of it that needs to be solved, obviously with reasonable housing and not luxury condos. Other things are too. Anyone who tries to make something as big and complex as housing into a silver bullet, black and white concern is not actually trying to solve the problem. They are trying to do something else and using housing as an excuse.
From what I have read, there is usually little overlap. Higher homelessness and high priced housing is in areas with low vacancy rates, and vice versa. That’s not to say you’re wrong about greed being a real problem (it definitely is), but I think it’s multifaceted rather than a singular “real” problem.
That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.
Edit: yep https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12568215/
No idea if this was an official explanation, but I always heard drop rates like this were simulating the item/body part/etc. being too damaged during combat to retrieve.
Post Mikulone.