well..
it's not overbuilt because of wall street, it's mostly overbuilt because of ez credit. wall street just packaged the mortgages and sold them and wrote a whole bunch financial products around it.
the bulk of the mortgages were "confirming", which means compliant with the government standards ( purchased by Freddy and Fanny ).
By the way, these idiots (GSEs) keep issuing mortgages that will keep failing..
So, i believe the housing market has a long way to go before it totally resolves itself.
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Человек, который почувствовал ветер перемен, должен построить не щит от ветра, а ветряную мельницу