Buddy go try a hospital in rural red states. Oh wait you can't because they are getting shut down at alarming rates

I see now. You have no appreciation of what a government is or does. Just so you know denser housing comes with a cost and its needs to be planned. Water, sewage, trash, schools, emergency response... etc. all need to handled in a some kind of planned manner that you do not have a understanding of and I apologize for not realizing how little you understand and wasting both mine and your time.

We have to agree to disagree. When we have a problem as big as our housing issue, no solution should be off the table because of "feels". Your solution still requires the state to get involved so we might as well try an all of the above approach and reevaluate whats working, and whats not, over a few year period or something like that. Also you choose to ignore all the possible issues with your private land owner solution. For instance I support higher, denser, and more affordable housing. However, if its not near public transit and its all high end luxury condos being brought up as foreign investments, its basically useless.

We shouldn't try one solution because you feel / are aware of past attempts where it was doomed to line the pockets of individuals and not create the needed housing? That's how I feel about the free market bullshit but you don't see me saying not to try it.

Why not do both? It's a crisis so lets treat it like one. We can slow down when gen-Z feels they can own a home at some point in their life.

>The state doesn’t generally build houses itself

Maybe we should try that too?

I finally realized the NIMBYs will also fight their home increasing in value, because then they have to pay more in taxes when their appraisal goes up. There is no winning with them.

Sounds a lot like a slumlord to me...

Don't worry it hasn't been appealed down yet. Facebook will spend a little to pay much less.