For society to function properly and for human beings to be free, there are some things that must be treated as so fundamental that they aren't subject to a vote. We protect the right to speech, for example, not because everything everybody says is popular. We protect it because it isn't! Housing is like this. Basically nobody wants a bunch of new housing in their neighborhood. But society can't function if people ar…
We should try for the opposite, to make housing as affordable as possible (via the free market).
The main ways to do this are abolish:
zoning,
minimum parking restrictions,
minimum unit size,
Eliminate free street parking,
Eliminate mortgage interest tax deduction and anything else designed to favor ownership over renting.
Then, after we do that:
- start building large rotating space habitats, so we can start building effectively infinite living space, and fit a trillion humans in our local area of the solar system.