Want to bring manufacturing jobs to the US? You don't need some insane tariff policy, all you need to do is allow people to build housing on land that they own.
Bonus: this will grow GDP by double digit percentage points instead of throwing into another recession https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/opinion/housing-regulatio...
Tax incentives or other reasons to have companies offer jobs in places like Milwaukee or Boise reduces housing pressure on the big cities.
What we used to have is smaller (in area) cities, who were not governed in lock-step, and if housing was needed, entire new cities would pop up (sometimes called suburbs, but check them - often they're their own legal entity).
building out the VHCOL cities is the fastest path to high growth and social mobility. These are far and away the country's most productive places (even for low skilled work) and build up, reducing housing cost, and bringing in migrants and making them more productive turbocharges growth.
We need to unlock our economic centers if we want to survive.