I'm sorry but I'm tired of hearing "move to South Dakota" as the solution to the housing crisis. > if you don't choose to live in an overpopulated metro oh, y

I'm sorry but I'm tired of hearing "move to South Dakota" as the solution to the housing crisis. > if you don't choose to live in an overpopulated metro oh, you mean where the jobs are? Yeah how selfish of people to want to live where they can find work, or where their family lives, or where they grew up, or where there's a variety of food places and stuff to do. The real problem is zoning. Most of these "overpopulated metro areas" have a pretty low population density because apartments are banned in 99% of the city (due to exclusionary single-family zoning). If townhouses & apartments were actually allowed to be built over the past 50 years in most American cities, there could be easily 3-10x the amount of housing available, reducing sprawl and driving down housing costs. The pendulum is swinging back and zoning is starting to loosen up, but after decades of bad policy, it's going to take a very long time for it to actually make a difference.