I really don't get why you'd deregulate housing/construction. You don't allow free market to "balance itself" in industries with natural monopolies (e.g. utili

I really don't get why you'd deregulate housing/construction. You don't allow free market to "balance itself" in industries with natural monopolies (e.g. utilities, cellular operators). Beyond a certain distance, commuting to a city is impractical, so the space for residential development is limited (= there is a hard cap on how much stuff you can build). The utilities are heavily regulated (for good reasons), why shouldn't the government start regulating the housing market on the same grounds? Another thing to consider, there is nothing inherently "free market" about letting anyone build whatever they want, as long as it's on their land. Taxing, classifying and partitioning land by area covered is as arbitrary as taxing by window count[1] or house width[2]. Why not evaluate and sell vertical lots? Up from certain height, large areas are reserved for air traffic already, so there is a precedent. It could look like this picture[3], the central beam would be regulated akin to roads today. 1 http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/window_tax.html http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/window_tax.html http://www.colinsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/154-22.jpg http://www.colinsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/154-22... 2 https://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/amsterdams-taxing-narrow-houses/ https://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/amsterdams-taxin... 3 http://www.evolo.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/vertical-street-1.jpg http://www.evolo.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/vertical-stre...