There's also a question of subjectivity here. Do you want to commute or live in a small expensive dwelling? Those are choices, neither of which have any bearing on connecting parking space with homelessness. Those are simply unrelated facts.

Learn to code and don't commute. And don't accept offers that force you to. The commute lifestyle is allowed because we allow it.

If I assume that remote work is as productive as in-office[0], then everyone in this position is now competing with worldwide [1] labour market.

Same applies to all office jobs.

Even to physical labour, if we have robot telepresence[2].

[0] IDK, might be?

[1] Or at least +/- a time zone or three.

[2] AI-on-the-edge robotics probably ends those things as human work opportunities.

You're exactly right. And that's why over 100k developers were recently terminated while foreign labor was hired. But don't feel too bad for them. Many were already immigrants from India and other countries who are simply giving their countrymen a chance to also gain entrance to the American market. The same chance they had to undercut someone else's pay. Capitalism at its finest.

All the more reason to convert parking in to housing near jobs.

That wouldn't solve anything. The housing would simply cost too much to live near and you'd still need a car to leave the residential areas which are not near work areas even in downtown neighborhoods. My commute to work downtown is actually shorter from the suburbs than it was when I lived and worked downtown. Public transit was over an hour to go just 5 miles from the east side to the skyscrapers. Now I'm 30 miles away and my commute is under 40 minutes. You can't just put a blanket on the subject and claim victory. I think someone above mentioned nuance.