R1 zoning prevents the creation of affordable housing. Since you can only fit maybe two or three households per acre, and land prices are sky high, the only affordable housing is in the middle of nowhere, 2 hours from anything.

Something like this would be a huge improvement and reduce housing costs.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/6/6/toward-dynamic-...

I agree with this. But the person i responded to was implying that relaxed zoning rules would leave more shoddy houses by developers. Despite building regulations being completely different than zoning.

Ahh! Yeah I was thinking the same thing. It makes no sense that zoning would affect building quality.