The best way to produce affordable housing is to follow Tokyo’s example and embrace YIMBY growth
🔍 Argument Trees ✅ Top Reasons to Agree Tokyo built housing at scale through permissive zoning, keeping it significantly more affordable than comparable global cities despite similar demand pressures. Supply restrictions are the primary driver of unaffordability - when we restrict housing supply through zoning, prices inevitably rise, harming precisely the young and lower-income people progressives claim to champion. Democratic-controlled cities (San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Boston) have the nation's worst affordability despite decades of progressive rhetoric about helping working families - they protect wealthy homeowners' property values through exclusionary zoning while claiming to support equity. Red states like Texas and Florida, with less restrictive zoning, actually deliver more affordable housing and economic mobility for young families than California or Massachusetts - exposing the policy failure of cosmopolitan liberalism. Kamala Harris's housing plan explicitl...