I would believe that if I couldn’t find lumber. It’s available, just expensive.
I saw a discussion on the high prices recently. The land owners are at historically low prices. The lumberjacks and sawmills say they aren’t getting any more than a couple of years ago. The public financial reports of stockholder held lumber companies showed that gross income and profits were up a few hundred percent for 2020 over 2019. Retailers are supposedly at their same margins but still making more because they’re paying more.