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Build more apartments.

Building more apartments has a huge environmental impact. Also it can severely impact the beauty of a city.

Building them if there is an actual housing shortage? Sure! Building them so people from the silicon valley can be digital nomads? Hell no.

Are you a housing planner? Do you have a degree in economics/market studies?

Also, building apartments has a huge environmental impact? Ok?.... So does rural sprawl? So does... everything? There is nothing inherently more damaging about those.

Beauty of a city? Cities are cities because of apartments. And you want.. fewer of them? Perhaps you would enjoy the suburbs more?

This is an underutilized solution in general, but is actually not even close to one at this point in time. Construction is incredibly hard at the moment (at least in the US) due to supply and labor shortages. It’s actually not clear when or even if these will be alleviated.

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