> people argue that the existing single-family homes should be torn down and replaced with greater density. Literally nobody argues this. Pure strawman. What

> people argue that the existing single-family homes should be torn down and replaced with greater density. Literally nobody argues this. Pure strawman. What people argue is that property owners should be _permitted_ to build _slightly_ larger buildings on _their_ property. The law today for most land in most American cities says that property owners are forbidden from building anything but detached single-family dwellings. To remove this prohibition and to allow property owners to develop their own land, if they want that, is not the same as bulldozing the existing neighborhood.