The problem is that housing is not a free market, and there's an uncanny valley effect: free markets are great, socialism is not without its own benefits, but a non-free market has the advantages of neither and the disadvantages of both.
That is, housing is not a free market because it's illegal to build enough of it to meet demand. Employment is not a free market for a variety of reasons, which means employees don't have enough bargaining power to get remote work. And the U.S. has the special problem that Internet access is not a free market either, political corruption has crippled the ability of rural areas to provide it for themselves, which in turn damages the ability of the economy to provide jobs in areas where there is enough housing.
And as long as all that is true, saying housing can be allocated by the market is just saying 'let them eat cake': an abdication by government of its responsibilities to safeguard the most basic rights of the people.
That is, housing is not a free market because it's illegal to build enough of it to meet demand. Employment is not a free market for a variety of reasons, which means employees don't have enough bargaining power to get remote work. And the U.S. has the special problem that Internet access is not a free market either, political corruption has crippled the ability of rural areas to provide it for themselves, which in turn damages the ability of the economy to provide jobs in areas where there is enough housing.
And as long as all that is true, saying housing can be allocated by the market is just saying 'let them eat cake': an abdication by government of its responsibilities to safeguard the most basic rights of the people.