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Is it a housing shortage or an excess of population in urban centers? What are you going to do living like sardines in a can where high density housing has bee

• ch4s3 7y ago
  Infrastructure is far cheaper to provide per person at high densities. You need less of it, and things like electricity have less loss over shorter distances.
• throwaway34241 7y ago
  The population hasn't increased tremendously, it's the price that has gone up. So it doesn't seem like excess population is probably the problem. You could lay the blame at demand for housing in cities (instead of supply). It seems less possible to make housing affordable by reducing demand though. I don't think it's wrong to dislike cities and to want to live in the suburbs or countryside. But people will need to commute longer and longer and pay more and more to landlords unless more housing is built. I think what makes sense is for the cities to expand to accommodate the demand, then be surrounded by suburbs. If the people who want to live in cities can live there, that should make the suburbs more affordable. And there is no way to have an affordable suburb right in the city anyway.