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They could at least stop preventing people that may want to build

Reforming zoning laws may not be the panacea but it's a vital first step

Or they can just functionally ignore them like most laws.

Umm in California, some version of the Government is always in the way of the build. Homes also have almost always sold well above building costs.

The government can pay and build things itself, however.

Not a great history here for residential

It worked well for Singapore. It can be done, conceptually.

Great anecdotal example that only seems to apply to Singapore. See China today for state sponsored high rise outcomes elsewhere.

Chinese culture is completely different; they treat property as a sure-fire growth asset and are generally desperate for secure investments, hence why so many just bought property sight unseen in the middle of nowhere with no housing demand underpinning it.

We can use success stories as guidance and failure stories as cautionary tales when devising policy, you know.

You want the US to follow policy and investing leads by mainland China?