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Is Solving the Housing Crisis Really Simple?

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Aziz Sunderji
Jul 06, 2026
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Why is housing so expensive? How can we make it more affordable?

It depends who you ask. The conventional view is that regulation is to blame; our major cities are zoned for single-family housing—this prevents us from building more homes and lowering prices. In the conventional view, the solution is to ‘upzone’—allow denser housing to be built in these e…

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