Is there data on that? "Tons of very tall housing developments" is often not really that many. Eg., a lot of newspapers say that SF is now in a "building boom".

Is there data on that? "Tons of very tall housing developments" is often not really that many. Eg., a lot of newspapers say that SF is now in a "building boom". But here's the real data, in a graph I just made: http://i.imgur.com/UFhH4VY.png http://i.imgur.com/UFhH4VY.png That tiny, barely-visible bump at the end of the red line is the "building boom". I haven't looked at Canadian data, but 100% of major US cities that built enough housing between 1990 and 2013 have low housing costs: http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/asking.prices.png http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/asking.price...