Zoning and building restrictions across most of the western world make housing in desirable towns extremely expensive.

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• A house is built by trades that barely coordinate with each other, which is what makes housing cheap to design and almost impossible to redesign. BPBrian Potter2 Apr 2024housing
• A lack of AI is not contributing to the housing crisis. KJKen Jennings16 Dec 2025housing
• Affordability is not a property of a building; it is a price set in a transaction, so there is no such thing as affordable housing, only affordable prices. DHDaniel Herriges4 Jan 2023housing
• Australia's housing shortage comes from bringing in more people each year than it builds homes for. MCMatt Canavan26 Jun 2026housing
• British councils are often careless about maintaining high-rise housing and ignore fire warnings. CSCharles Saumarez Smith9 Nov 2025housing

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