[jjav]

> The problem in the U.S. is that it's illegal to build anything _but_ single family homes in the majority of suburbs.

This is always repeated, but could you point to studies documenting in which cities it is illegal? All around I see townhouses, apartment buildings, 2/4/6-plexes and other variants being built, none of which are single family homes. Maybe it takes a bunch of paperwork (I don't know) but clearly it isn't illegal.

> Wouldn't it be better if people had access to a walkable grocery store, coffee shop or park? Or if kids could safely walk or bike to school?

This is a false dichotomy. One can also live in a SFH and walk/bike to all of these things and more. I do, and I do, so does my kid.

[csnover]

> This is always repeated, but could you point to studies documenting in which cities it is illegal?

You don’t need to look at a study, you can just look at zoning and land use maps for basically any city in America. Areas zoned single-family are not allowed to build anything else. There are multiple articles on Wikipedia[0][1][2] about this topic with literally hundreds of citations to primary and secondary sources. What a frustrating question.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States