Cities that solved housing did it by building an unremarkable amount of unremarkable housing for a very long time, which is why nobody can point to a dramatic example. The absence of a dramatic case is the finding, and it is also the politics: a policy whose costs are immediate and local and whose payoff is twenty years out is the hardest thing an elected person can attempt.
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The absence of a dramatic case is the finding. Every place people cite as a miracle turns out to be forty years of boring supply plus a planning system that says yes by default.
It also explains the politics. A policy whose payoff is twenty years out and whose costs are immediate and local is the hardest possible thing for an elected person to do.
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