> We already did this ages ago -- most cities have already made all the changes you are requesting, years or even a decade ago
No, they did not. This is divorced from the reality of most cities.
No, they did not. This is divorced from the reality of most cities.
Yes, they did, and you can see it in the metrics.
If "new housing" is "not legal", how are we at a 30-year-high in new residential construction? - https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-housing-starts-surge-1... and https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/us-housin...
Note that we're also at a nearly 50-year record-high on urban apartment construction as well https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/apartment-building-construc... -- the kinds of dense multi-family units that urbanists insist cities "haven't legalized".
Building apartments where it was already legal to build apartments is great, and we're seeing it help curb rents in some places, but there's so much more to it than that.