> No, they did not.
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".