How much new housing is being built there?

I'm from slovenia, former yugoslavia, and the situation here is the same, making it practically impossible for an average couple to buy anything here (and we're worrying about the demographics, lol).

Back in yugoslav times, government built large apartment building complexes, by basically finding an empty field at the end of the city, saying "this is a city, farms should be outside the city, not within it", and building a complex of apartment buildings, and then another, and then a school/kindergarden, and then two or three more. And by complex I mean literally tens of 5+ story apartment buildings. Since it was socialism, those apartments would be rented out to workers by the government.

On the other hand, people who wanted a house (instead of an apartment) could buy a plot of land, and build houses themselves... and i mean literally themselves... some of them would even dig the basement level by themselves, ask friends for help, every friday after work go to a buildng materials store, fill up their car with a few bags of cement and bricks, lay a layer of two down, and then wait for the next weekend. Fascade, insulation, sometimes even the upper floor could wait for better times, while people moved into the ground floor. Dealing with permits and papers was a thing "to deal with later".

Then came independence, the government didn't want to deal with so many apartments and sold them to renters for a price of a mid-range car.

And the current generations? Fucked. Like totally.

A field right next to the roundway around the city? Sure [1]. Next to highrises? Sure [2]. New large apartment complexes? Nope. want to buy a few houses and build a larger apartment building? You better literally be friends with the mayor, since zoning doesn't allow more than two-floor two-apartment buildings. Want to build on an empty field? Nope, zoning doesn't allow it.

People complain we literally need tens of thousands of new apartments, and all that's being built is ~4 "luxury" apartment buildings in relatively shitty locations (but still better than nothing) and every now and then someone gets a blessing from the mayor to build a 6-8 apartment building in a place where an old house once was. ...and then those apartments are bought up for way above what they're worth by people who then rent them out via airbnb.

What if you're magically somehow able to aquire some land where it's allowed to build stuff? Permits and other papers take years. Want to build yourself? Nope, no way. Want friends to help? If they're not licenced contractors and giving out receipts, they're considered as working illegaly and inspections check those things a lot.

Add to this some NIMBYism, where the neigbor complains if you're building a house there, and the situation is even worse.

And public housing? The government built one complex of those, and the build-price was higher than retail price a few years before it was built (like 2800eur/m^2)... because well, government and corruption.

So yeah...

In the end, this is how you get revolutions and terrorism... You're a good worker, save money, save 10k eur in a year (a lot for most), and the apartments you were looking at are 30k more than last year. Why bother? People have nothing left to lose, because the average rent is above average pensions, so without something huge changing soon, a lot of people will be homeless and literally without anything to lose anymore.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/iL7962VtEzThwgAb8
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/6Do3W3KWXWKpxw1DA