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It's a symptom and not the problem itself.

100 years ago if you wanted to open a store all you needed was a building and a door. Now if you want to open a store, you need a parking lot bigger than the building itself to serve the same number of people.

You used to be able to house thousands of people in what is now a suburb that houses just a hundred.

It's a crippled land-use philosophy which forces a land shortage in any city more populated than a village.