The remedy would be taking every city over a certain population, slam dunking local restrictive zoning and permitting straight into the trash, and replacing it

The remedy would be taking every city over a certain population, slam dunking local restrictive zoning and permitting straight into the trash, and replacing it with permissive "shall issue" zoning at the state or national level, in the style of Japan [1]. There's no great mystery here. There just aren't enough housing units in the places people actually want to live, and local cities are keeping it that way. [1]: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html