American cities need to grow up, and let housing be built

We need to cap the commercial office space to nearby homes ratio.

The current problem is that there aren’t enough homes near where work is. Localities love to build commercial RE instead of housing as they are lucrative and doesn’t need schools to be built. Putting a cap on the commercial RE to residential RE within 30 mins is a reasonable thing to do and will not only force more efficient use of commercial RE, but will also force them to build good homes and schools nearby.

Currently there is a glut of commercial RE and owners are leaving it empty instead of reducing rent prices. If politicians can push for this policy, it will not only be a popular vote grabbing policy, but has the potential to solve the problem.

Housing is always about more than housing. You also need schools, utilities, roads, sewers, water, etc etc etc.

So you can't just "let housing be built". You have to plan a community, or you'll just lurch from one problem to the next.

Moderation seems like a long-lost concept in this space; mid-rise with mixed use, as most cities around the world implement, is perfectly fine, but must be discarded because of zoning for single families at one extreme and skyscrapers at the other with no in between.

The cool thing about living in a free country is that nobody "needs to" do anything that an elite tells them to.

No, thanks, I’d prefer to not see the neighborhood I live in and all the work my neighbors and I have put into it not get bulldozed for ugly modern “dense” buildings.

Large towers create unhappy people. Humans were not meant to live that way.