Most apparent trends in American housing are the Bay Area in disguise: a handful of outlier metros drive the correlations people quote.

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• Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all. SHSamuel Hughes16 Jun 2026Americahousing
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