“Disagree. Even cities that have been built out for close to 100 years have land use disagreements and NIMBY residents. Old buildings come down, new buildings go up, ad infinitum.”
Understand how that could be the case in some areas.
Also found the excerpt below from the article you posted provided a particularly interesting take on the issue. Build as we may, many will still be priced out of CA per. . .
“Supply-side cheerleaders can keep crying “build, build, build!” as much as they want but greasing the wheels of the market is not going to have any net benefit for most people, and certainly not for the vast army of low paid service workers that are also part of the Bay Area’s tech economy. And it’s not just voices on the left voicing skepticism that trickle-down housing policy simply doesn’t work. No one denies that we need more housing but unless the focus is on building affordable housing, more construction does not mean less crisis.”
