[jsk2600]

>I would love to see very basic, small, apartments created by governments on a mass level

As someone living in a country where it can take five or more years to get approval to build a new house and 10+ for commercial buildings due to the government bureaucracy, I'm scared by the idea of getting the government more involved. The key issue is that the government makes it very hard to build -> less housing -> expensive housing.

[greenie_beans]

if that is SF then that sounds like the discretionary review process for entitlements, are you familiar with any of those words?

[tryauuum]

what country is that?

[jsk2600]

Czechia. Also, it's very inconsistent depending on local governance. Even Microsoft bailed out their data center project near Prague for this (and other) reasons...