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Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by zeckalpha on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:24PM (#26839239)
Where can you find greenfield or brownfield land to build a new neighborhood? My county is already converting the last two large parcels into residential.
Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by oftenwrong on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:01AM (#26843616)
You don't need undeveloped land. You could increase density on land that is already developed. In the US, even urban areas have a lot of spots where land is used inefficiently: surface parking lots, wide streets, large setbacks, single-family detached homes. Consider that residential streets in American cities may be 25m wide, whereas a residential street in a traditional city is more like 3m wide.
Re:U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand by maxerickson on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:01PM (#26839529)
Detroit. Which is only a half joking answer.

In other places there are probably a lot of things that could be done at the planning level to make densification more likely. That's not the same as a cohesive project, but it might have a similar effect.