Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all.

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• Europe has no visible NIMBY movement because its NIMBYs already won: nobody proposes suburban densification, so nobody has to fight it. SHSamuel Hughes16 Jun 2026Europehousing
• Zoning is a European invention: German and Austro-Hungarian cities wrote the first rules protecting rich suburbs from denser building. SHSamuel Hughes16 Jun 2026Europehousing
• Chinese factory workers are more motivated than American ones because what they want has been getting cheaper against their wages while American housing has not. MHMolson Hart25 Dec 2025Americahousing
• Data centres mostly take farmland, of which America has too much, rather than housing land, of which it has too little. AMAndy Masley2 May 2026Americahousing
• For most American housing the largest cost is putting up the physical building, not the land it sits on or the rules attached to that land. BPBrian Potter2 Apr 2024Americahousing

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