I believe we need explicit housing mandates in the way we have parking mandates. Except this time, we'll be creating a more universal public good. Just as how

I believe we need explicit housing mandates in the way we have parking mandates. Except this time, we'll be creating a more universal public good. Just as how parking requirements make it much easier to find parking in high density and otherwise crowded areas, housing requirements will do the same for housing. A lot of folks on the public housing side of the debate want to decomodify housing through public ownership, but it would be far more effective if we just mandated housing be a part of every commercial development project nation wide. This would be good for so many reasons ranging from better land use to much more abundant housing. Additionally, zoning codes should be a state or federal system, as this would make it much easier to build economies of scale around housing development. But the placement of those zones/codes should still remain in the hands of local muncipalities, as no municipality should be able to protect their right to certain types of euclidian zoning.