From the original article of the article: >You see it in housing and the physical footprint of our cities. Isn't the problem with housing not "willingness to

From the original article of the article: >You see it in housing and the physical footprint of our cities. Isn't the problem with housing not "willingness to build" but actually heavy regulations that penalize builders to favor the "already-have" people? It seems to me like a shallow argument to point it toward "willingness". Seems more like bad incentive systems. The overall message I agree with; we should build more. But the root cause of it, my take, is not "willingness" but in expectation and reaction to failure. Most of these regulation was put in place with well intention. Some landlord/teacher/constructor made a shoddy work (mistake or with malicious intent), people make demands "to be better" after media outcry, policy maker put regulation in place. Unintended consequences is that landlords/teachers/constructors that was doing nothing wrong (and people that cause honest mistakes) also get penalized. Same attitude can be seen outside regulators and policy makers; On the internet: the entire "cancel culture" or social media witch hunt is all about finding a mistake someone did, ascribe intention to it and shame them to inaction. In hiring, new grads are expected to have a work-experience equivalent skill-set already gained in university. (Effectively penalizing allowance of mistake by hiring someone that have to learn at work.) Our "willingness" seems to be the same but "expectation" seems to have been blown out of proportion, and the fallout of failure to meet this expectation is constantly growing, so less and less people would even like to try.