My claim was that labor was not the primary cost, and I guessed that land was the biggest driver. You have confirmed it basically is, although as a function of

My claim was that labor was not the primary cost, and I guessed that land was the biggest driver. You have confirmed it basically is, although as a function of things like zoning. That’s trivially obvious. That was what I meant when I wrote the post. Obviously zoning is not the same thing as labor. Lumping zoning in with “construction costs” makes zero sense. Everything in some sense fits that definition. To be clear, zoning costs definitely are not labor costs. The way you are using these terms is incorrectly conflating things. Again because you don’t seem to get it: the post I was responding to blamed (union) labor for the price of construction. Clearly incorrectly.