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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Over the past decade, the median home price has increased by 134 percent in Phoenix, 133 percent in Miami, 129 percent in Atlanta, and 99 percent in Dallas. (Over that same stretch, prices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have increased by about 75 percent, 76 percent, and 97 percent, respectively)."

YIMBYs mindlessly cite Sun Belt cities as shining examples of how eased zoning rules lead to building more lead to lower prices. But it's not happening. Instead, we're getting higher housing prices along with Earth-killing sprawl in those places.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/zoning-sun-belt-housing-shortage/683352/[/quote]

What the article actually concludes:

“But the real answer is that San Francisco and New York weren’t unique—they were just early. Eventually, no matter where you are, the forces of NIMBYism catch up to you.”[/quote]

Actually, it concludes that those Sun Belt cities are running out of room to sprawl. It's funny that YIMBYs never mention the sprawl involved in their red-state utopias (all of which have truly horrid public transportation, so you have people driving to their no-longer-cheap McMansions 45 miles outside the city center). [/quote]

It concludes that … wait for it … they need to change zoning regs to allow for higher density development. [/quote]

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