The real issue here is scarcity of square footage. The US has more than enough land to house everyone. According to Wikipedia: * ~4 million mi^2 of land * ~13

The real issue here is scarcity of square footage. The US has more than enough land to house everyone. According to Wikipedia: * ~4 million mi^2 of land * ~130 million housholds This is about 19 acres per family. Of course this is an overestimate because a lot of land is waterways, mountains, etc. Even if we assume that we're off by 100x that's .2 acres/family which equates to a house something like this: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/40-Canvasback-Ln-Elizabethtown-PA-17022/187317465_zpid/ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/40-Canvasback-Ln-Elizabet... Maybe instead of trying to put as many people as possible into as small of a square foot area we could: 1. Build public transit that can cover larger distances. (Street cars, busses, subways) 2. Artificially stimulate new communities (0 property & sales tax for any restaurants, bars, theaters, etc for 30 years) 3. Build out high quality infrastructure. This could be built underground with maintenance tunnels that allow these utilities to be repaired and could be subsidized by the construction of subways. (sewers, power, fiber)