[lobotryas]

The real root cause is that everyone wants to live (for obvious reasons) in places where housing supply is constrained like SF, LA, or NYC. Home ownership is easy in places like Detroit or Oklahoma boonies, but unsurprisingly no one wants to go there.

Instead of cramming more people onto the same set of square mikes, how about we develop more (non coastal) places for people to aspire moving to instead?

Not everyone has to or should move to California.

[arcticbull]

No, the issue is housing supply is arbitrarily and artificially constrained in these areas. It's vastly more efficient to simply concentrate housing and development in a small area rather than sprawling into undesirable areas.

[bombcar]

Those other locations have similar problems at lower price-levels: relative to incomes you still have to get to moderately large commute distances to get affordable housing.

One improvement would effective transportation that makes the outlying locations nearly as attractive for commuting purposes.

[dredmorbius]

Housing affordability and precarity are widespread problems. $/ft^2 an $/br is high on the coasts. Rent:income and evictions/10k are high throughout much of the U.S.