[aegypti]

Here’s data from 2021-2025 using https://socds.huduser.gov/permits/index.html

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

~21 million people

2021: 59,383 total units

2022: 60,602

2023: 41,674

2024: 61,159

2025: 6,777

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

~7.5 million people

2021: 69,007 total units

2022: 75,786

2023: 68,336

2024: 65,296

2025: 11,057

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

~8 million people

2021: 74,617 total units

2022: 77,501

2023: 66,725

2024: 72,319

2025: 9,836

Using Houston alone, NYC is not #1 in raw numbers and in 2025 so far is only permitting 60% as many units as a CBSA 3x smaller than it.

I don’t know if HOU/DFW are the CBSAs pumping out the most units nationally though, they just came to mind.

[redwood]

Houston in Dallas who can simply expand externally into new land are hardly a proxy for a land real estate constrained city like New York that has to build vertically

And how is their mass transportation going? As if houses alone are all that matters.

[aegypti]

Surely it's not so simple when New York City is building more housing supply that essentially any other American city

can clearly see from there that NYC is #1 in terms of raw numbers of new housing units

Are the original goalposts, housing supply alone is an important factor in the price of housing though fwiw.