> zoning laws are not the primary cause of home prices > We ... need to vastly increase supply across the entire country somehow

Zoning laws reduce available supply by making it illegal or impossible (due to e.g. parking minimums) to build densely in most of the bigger cities in North America

> For some reason it’s ok to talk about this in the context of Canada and how their mass immigration has increased home prices

1. It's not okay to scapegoat immigrants 2. Canada hasn't built enough housing to keep up with a growing population, largely due to exclusionary zoning policies. The vast majority of land in Vancouver is reserved for SFHs, even within walksheds of skytrain stations representing billions of dollars in Provincial investment.