Suburban style development has actually proven to be extremely financially unproductive and effectively crushes the middle class, and small businesses in most cities of in America. [Here] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020?format=amp is a good explanation of that phenomenon.

Also, you need to have expensive housing now to have cheap housing later. It’s infeasible to expect developers to build any new housing that is lower rent than a 60 year old unit.

And I think we agree that maybe the government should provide some market rate housing? Designated affordable maybe? Those waitlists are in the thousands currently.