Housing and jobs zoning needs to be better distributed. Why does all the work activity have to be concentrated in small city centers and housing spread out so

Housing and jobs zoning needs to be better distributed. Why does all the work activity have to be concentrated in small city centers and housing spread out so much? City centers need a higher proportion of residential and other places need a higher concentration of commercial/industry. That isn’t a market issue because these things are controlled by local governments. There wouldn’t be a housing crisis if your zoning required 1:1 jobs to homes ratios, or even anything close. What I want to see is “there’s no more office space available here, we’ll have to move somewhere else” That and square footage limitations for worker density in office spaces. A whole lot of the housing crisis boils down to local governments allowing a whole lot of office space growth and not much residential growth.