Because population is increasing faster than new housing is being built. There is a supply problem and demand is in elastic. The supply problem is the result of government’s continual suppression of new construction, via permitting red tape and overeager density zoning.
It doesn’t have to be fluff though. They could just report on any of the reduced disease or lower heart attacks than last year or whatever. There’s got to be some stats, even at a local level like in a town or something, where things are going well.
They should use that to balance the doom and gloom, not fluff pieces about squirrel butts.