No, he's right, he absolutely should be able to live anywhere he wants.

He simply needs to take the personal responsibility to make it achievable vs capitulate to some strange reasoning of "it's not my fault I can't afford it, it's their fault because XYZ".

I live in Manhattan. I can afford to live literally anywhere in the world, probably more comfortably than where I am now.

The question is whether the people who cook my food, do my laundry, plumb my home, deliver seltzer to my bodega, butcher chicken in my grocery store should be able to afford to live within a reasonable distance of my home. We can choose to build cities that make it nearly impossible for them to do so and for them to live in constant fear of homelessness (with many eventually sliding into it) or we can build ones where they can comfortably afford a modest home.

In a booming city, developers with the capital and the technology should be allowed to deploy it to accomodate me, just as they have done to accomodate everyone who already lives there.