What you describe is ideal, but we also have to recognize that the city has limited ability to stop things from getting unbalanced. Cities like San Francisco an

What you describe is ideal, but we also have to recognize that the city has limited ability to stop things from getting unbalanced. Cities like San Francisco and Seattle are adding more jobs than they are housing. Banning an increase in housing doesn't create a balanced system, it just shifts the deficit to the suburbs and the road system.