America Can’t Build Homes Anymore

Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power.

Walk through any major American city today, and you’ll see the same paradox: vacant office towers beside crowded apartments, underused lots amid soaring rents. It’s not that we lack space or need — it’s that we’ve forgotten how to build. Our once prolific construction machine has sputtered, leaving cities caught between scarcity and speculation. Inside and outside […]

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