Too many people live here already, it is actually a question of who deserves to, whether that is polite or not. Otherwise might as well ask who wants to live in America. Does the 80% of the world who wants to deserve to? Why aren’t we building homes for them? I don’t want more people here, or to make it easier for them.
If every subsidized renter had to pay market rent, the median rental cost for everyone else would instantly fall between where they are paying ~1.5k, and where we are now >5k, and we wouldn’t have to deal with criminals and invalids in the middle of the most precious zone in our country and probably the world
You can build market rate housing as well (and should). Increasing construction does not mean increasing subsidized housing in all cases and, despite the odd claim otherwise, increasing supply does lower prices for housing. Housing already has a toll associated with it, unlike freeways which are free. So, demand is not induced in the same manner as it is lane expansion.
Truly abolishing all forms of housing subsidization would disincentivize suburban construction overall. If land use policy, etc. allows, then this would also lead to an increase in urban construction and new homes within urban cores. Without getting into a discussion of what people deserve or do not deserve, we can discuss incentives both potential and actually realized as they pertain to policy. If more people want to live in cities (or if the denizens of cities want housing to be cheaper) allowing more construction is a desirable policy for them to pursue.