Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Since 2016, state legislators have proposed a blizzard of housing laws, from forcing suburbs to allow multifamily housing to stripping cities of land-use authority if they don't approve housing more quickly.
44% : In a new book, "Doubled Up," Hope Harvey, a professor of public policy at the University of Kentucky, documents how high rents, the precarious job market and the need to care for older parents or young children has made multigenerational households far more common.

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