Population and Housing

[ijmorlan]

Also, explain to me why these folks are arguing that dense walkable developments are "unaffordable" yet the market (you know the thing which decides prices) wants sprawl instead? If housing is unaffordable, it's because it's in demand and supply hasn't met demand. Sooooooo....the market WANTS urban walkable development, not cheap sprawl.

Yes times a million! Something can’t be both expensive and frequently purchased unless it is popular! The market is, in fact, demanding dense urban developments, not single-family houses to infinity.

But of course we only cite market forces when they lead to the status quo.

Also, don’t forget that it is illegal to buy a bunch of sprawl houses and redevelop as dense urban form. Why does it need to be illegal if nobody wants it?

(yes, I know it doesn’t really make sense to redevelop 5 houses to be dense urban form, since real urban areas depend on having many blocks of dense development near each other; but it isn’t even allowed)