[CPLX]

> cities like NYC and San Francisco are trying to have their cake and eat it to. Liberal residents want to keep their suburban-style single family neighborhoods while simultaneously appearing to care about skyrocketing rents.

Those two cites are not the same at all. NYC has few suburban style neighborhoods and the ones we do have aren't that relevant to these discussions.

New York is at least somewhat functional as a large city, and can and does permit the building of massive amounts of high rise residential development. From where I stand in downtown Brooklyn, the skyline has become nearly unrecognizable in recent years. And predictably, rents are starting to fall noticeably.

San Francisco doesn't operate this way at all.

[eherot]

New York is nowhere near as bad as San Francisco when it comes to permitting, and it does have more parcels where height is not significantly limited, but it still builds far less housing than it needs to, and overly restrictive zoning is still basically the reason.

[CPLX]

Do you have any basis for this claim? NYC really doesn't appear to be all that limited by zoning, and has been bringing an incredible amount of new construction housing to market every year for awhile now.