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What will all those new people do, maybe some fraction will build homes... For places like the US, which this article is about, we are nowhere near a high rate

What will all those new people do, maybe some fraction will build homes... For places like the US, which this article is about, we are nowhere near a high rate of immigration, and population growth is nowhere near historical rates. What is at historical rates is restriction on the ability to build homes. We have never had greater artificial restrictions on growth than now. Our history do the past century is coming up with ways to prevent the natural densification that humanity has used throughout its history.

kazinator 3y ago
> densification that humanity has used throughout its history. Yeah! Didn't the Romans, like, invent "concretum" for building 40 story condo towers? We densified throughout history; what gives now?
- epistasis 3y ago
  US code pretty much universally bans anything as dense as Roman cities. Part of it is cars, part of it is exclusionary zoning.
  - kazinator 3y ago
    I'm not in the US. There are housing crises in other countries not caused by weird US problems.