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Originally Posted by edale
I think it's funny to read of NYC having a 'housing crisis'. It's the most densely built city in North America by a longshot, home to more than 8 million people in the city, more than 20 million in the metro...how many people is it supposed to accommodate? Other than Staten Island, there is very little low density development in NYC, and few obvious places that could absorb lots of growth. It's not like other cities that are full of single family homes and restrictive zoning. I just don't know what some of these people expect. Every desirable city is expensive.
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There are plenty of room for New York metro area (and even the city) to grow. New York could and should add way more house units than it does currently. Many cities as dense as NYC manage to do it.
Unless one wants big cities to become a playground for the rich with poor immigrants on overcrowded ghettos and middle-class nowhere to be seen, than it's ok not build more.