In the U.S. specifically, minimum parking requirements also severely need to be adjusted. Much of our land is just paved-over concrete lot that will never be parked in because a bunch of old 1920s politicians guessed how much parking would be needed and we took too long to notice. If we could fit more stuff in the same amount of area, that’s more space we’d have for other things like housing.

I recommend the Climate Town video on this if you don’t mind some humor and vulgarity in your informative vids.

Do you want the hellscape that is Houston? This is how you get the 3 hour commute of your dreams.

Duck that. You’ have to waaaay over-build to get beyond the fact that people banks corps who need real estate to be expensive have the means to keep it so by buying everything and maintaining artificial scarcity. The houses are there, the condos, the starter homes, but they are not for sale. Lease only and they will often stand empty rather than be sold or rent reduced or even qualifications reduced (income four times rent, etc) because it looks better on the balance sheet. At least look carefully at the actual situation of your community and what guarantees you have that the resulting development will increase new home ownership by individuals and families, not just a forever burden on the city supplementing ridiculous “market rate” rents for crappy construction.