Thank you. This is a great read and this is the suggestion Economist Cowan should have offered. "Harding wrote in the article, the city had 142,417 housing st

Thank you. This is a great read and this is the suggestion Economist Cowan should have offered. "Harding wrote in the article, the city had 142,417 housing starts in 2014, which was “more than the 83,657 housing permits issued in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the 137,010 houses started in the entire country of England (population 54.3m)." Compare this, also, with the roughly 20,000 new residential units approved annually in New York City, the 23,500 units started in Los Angeles County, and the measly 5,000 homes constructed in 2015 throughout the entire Bay Area." And the true solution is to pass a law using Japan as an example: "The [Japanese] federal government recognized that these regulations were the problem, so in 2002, it passed the Urban Renaissance Law. The law stripped municipalities of the ability to control private property." Here is another interesting article from the same author, Scott Beyer pointed to by this article. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/05/25/modern-zoning-would-have-killed-off-americas-dense-cities/#728d3f199005 https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/05/25/modern-zo...