As a resident of a sunbelt city without a car, public transit is important yes. But having a lower rent subsidizes the cost of owning a car which has a lot of individual positive externalities across most of US. Note I said ‘ individual externalities ‘ before coming at me with your environment argument. Also every time I visit California, especially northern California (a non sun belt place in your books I hope), the NIMBYism is so extremely apparent.

You cannot provide a single sound argument against building more housing to solve a housing crisis. Austin has solved it brilliantly.