[bobthepanda]

The polled preferences of Americans look something like 60-40 in favor of single family homes. The actual land distribution in metropolitan areas looks more like 95-5.

To some degree, building more train tracks and allowing dense housing relieves pressure on the remaining areas.

[Tagbert]

or people don't tell the whole truth in polls?

[bobthepanda]

we have no way of figuring that out. The land is not legally permissive to get to a true market-oriented distribution of housing.

[wskinner]

Sure we do. We can investigate the living preferences of people with the means to choose between multiple options.