[TulliusCicero]

> Multi-story and multi-unit developments are everywhere, but that isn't making housing any more affordable.

More development doesn't make housing more affordable. It makes it less unaffordable compared to the alternative of restricting supply. For how that turns out, just take a look at SF.

Like, desirable cities are always going to be expensive, but you can choose between whether they're moderately expensive vs insanely expensive.

> So... liberal zoning --> rising land values/prices --> redevelopment is better than renting --> fewer rental units = higher rent. It's true up and down the west coast.

??? The west coast, by and large, does not have liberal zoning. This is particularly true in coastal California, which has the worst affordability problems.

One of the issues is that cities tend to only have small pockets of liberal zoning in downtown cores, so we get all our density from large towers that are inherently very expensive to build. If we got more middling density in existing SFH areas, it'd be much easier to get cheaper housing: http://missingmiddlehousing.com/