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The supply of land is fixed but it's not full yet, and filling it up with single-story buildings is a practice that can certainly be improved upon. The obstacl
by twblalock 8y ago
The supply of land is fixed but it's not full yet, and filling it up with single-story buildings is a practice that can certainly be improved upon.
The obstacle to building new housing is not the availability of land, it is the zoning laws. Even a geographically constrained place like San Francisco, surrounded by water on three sides, could accommodate far more housing units simply by building taller structures.
- drb91 8y agoAt this point the car centric nature of the city and relatively poor public transit are far bigger barriers to growth.