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You will never be able to outbuild what Facebook, Google, and the like can pay their workers.

NYC 1921-1929 (prior modern zoning): "The total of 658,780 new dwellings averaged 73,198 units per year, a figure ... In the most prolific year, 1927, 94,367 dwellings were built"

https://books.google.com/books?id=AS1bGTRSggYC&pg=PA122&lpg=...