I used to work in a 5-storey office building in Sunnyvale, CA (special permission required to build it). I could look out the window and see 10 miles in every direction. It was a vast sea of aging 60s bungalows. Also the most expensive place to live in the US. All my coworkers commuted for hours every day from the distant suburbs.

You ask what we should be building, and where? How about replacing old single-family homes in the Bay Area or Los Angeles with high-rises, or at least mid-rises...or at the very least town houses or something!

Housing. On land. With our hands. Unfortunately, the single greatest hurdle is bureacracy which requires layers upon layers of paperwork to build a single thing. On top of that, the taxes don’t help pricing the asset either. Nor do the additional 1000s of pages of regulations that prevent laypeople from making money on that housing.

Housing. On SFBA real estate. By drastically increasing the number of permits issued.

Houses, apartment buildings, government housing. Everywhere that has high housing demand with square footage prices far exceeding the national average. Reduce the governmental burdens to building new housing such as easing impact studies, reducing the influence of local zoning boards, and cutting unnecessary red tape (I don’t mean go to 0 government rules but we have a severely onerous amount now especially in the most popular places).

Houses. Everywhere. Using labor.

Exactly!