New Land

Thoughts on "solving" housing with infill vs. sprawl

At an urbanism/housing meetup the other week, I had an interesting chat with one of the D.C. YIMBY officers. We were talking about this question that sometimes comes up in debates over housing: can you “solve the housing crisis”—i.e., build enough new supply that prices come back down to normal-ish levels—without developing any new land?

I don’t really t…