Works in Progress Magazine

The Great Downzoning is the main cause of the housing shortages that afflict the great cities of the West today, with consequences for health, family formation, the environment, and economic growth. But the Great Downzoning was driven by interests more than by ideology. It was once legal to build almost anything, everywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?

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