What's going on with the housing market, why does it never stop going up?

[womanofthehills]

37. I live in a rural area of NM where many (mostly women) in my neighborhood

Have built their own homes - straw bale, earth ships, rammed earth. I had a house in Albuquerque but always wanted to live in the country. Lucky for me, my longtime significant other was a contractor in his old life plus he worked in the solar industry. He told me he would only help if I did an off grid frame house - so I have one of the few frame houses out here. So - he helped me build a country wood frame solar home over 5 yrs. One yr, I had the cement poured, next year, he and I framed it - then someone gave him free trusses so we made an upstairs etc. Just working a few weekends a month over the yrs I now have a nice country house. When it was getting close to done, I sold my Albuquerque house to finish off my country house and paid some friends to add a room, custom stairs, tile floors, put pine on the walls and make 2 upstairs decks. There are quite a few communities in NM like this. Many of my neighbors temporarily lived in trailers on their land while building. Here is an old article about my friend & neighbor Kathy’s earth ship. https://www.abqjournal.com/homes/1894650homes01-18-09.htm.

Suddenly our land and houses in this area are also rising in value and new people are moving in after yrs of us being a small community. We are all on 40 acre lots that cannot be divided - conservation district.