Mandatory parking minimums are going away in cities across the US, and units are getting more housing as a result.
Washington State is considering removing single family zoning.
Cities like Paris have many smaller apartment complexes that are public housing.
Everything I've suggested either exists or is being discussed seriously in some capacity. But, by all means keep your head in the sand rather than try to engage with actual housing policy.
All of the things you mention exist in the US to much larger degrees (do you know how much the US spends on social housing??) You are slinging insults to other commenters but you are really out of your depth here and have picked a couple of things and hailed them as solutions. You know not what you speak of.
Source: American expat currently living in London, previously Singapore.
No, no they are not.
Washington state has more than Seattle in it. It has rural areas, and mountainous regions, and no, every house in a rural area is not on agriculturally zoned land.
Nor does it make sense to have multidwelling houses, miles apart from each other.
I think, as others in this thread have stated, you are mistaking musings, ponderings, and "feelz good" ideas for serious discourse.
I support public housing, but that has zero bearing on changing the housing market. Which, I may add, is in a tiny, temporary inflated bubble. A decade ago, it was still recovering from the largest crash in modern history.
In terms of public housing, as land value increases, so do property taxes.
Thus, municipalities then have more funds to... build and maintain public housing! Which means that housing costs do not change the percentage of a city's budgetary costs, to build and maintain public housing.
Yes, Washington State is considering this. Yes, it's back on the drawing board, but it's very much in active discussion at the state level.
They have "area zoning", which says "only single family homes may exist here".
Thus, changing this won't ban single family dwellings. Only enable other types of dwellings.
A strange concept, but OK. Understood, thanks.
The hdb scheme is worth look into: government build apartments sold to people with medium income and racial quotas.
If 'Success' is your metric, the Singapore analogy to America would be to import way more Canadians and Mexicans, ban them from public housing and then make them pay for it.
I notice you didn't mention Berlin's rent control fiasco btw