There's a lot of anti-development NIMBY rhetoric in this article, along with the baseline assumption that more and taller development is a bad thing. Yet the c

There's a lot of anti-development NIMBY rhetoric in this article, along with the baseline assumption that more and taller development is a bad thing. Yet the current housing crisis has been caused by an acute lack of development, of decades of not enough housing having been created, with subsequent increases in housing costs. I suspect part of the problem is simply that they aren't allowing enough development. If it's not easy/possible for a developer to buy existing sparser land in the city, knock down what's there, then replace it with a much denser/taller 10+ floor apartment building of many median market rate rent units, well then there's your problem. We used to do a lot more of that in decades past, and that's what comprises a lot of the more affordable housing inventory on the market today.