I really don't understand this position. The country has a housing crisis because many of the cities in this country do. Removing the connection to the rest of America is an incorrect way of looking at it because of cause and effect: this is such a big problem in America today that it is affecting people who weren't directly in the housing-short markets themselves.

A weakness in part of America is a weakness for all of America. It works this way with the outside world too - our housing shortages are part of a global problem. We are all in this together. Framing the issues that the world cities have internally as something that isn't a problem for people living elsewhere is just denying that we live in a connected society.

One groups problems affect the other groups.

> And the ones with the worst housing problems have the most restrictive real estate laws.

Do you have a citation for that? I don't believe it's true.