i agree with where you want to go! i usually support “missing middle” reforms. ( see drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/13/y... ) 1/

land use reforms can help housing supply at certain margins. “doesn’t hurt” new supply (though may be accompanied by different harms). but i think people who imagine land use reforms will succeed at anything like the scale of our current and near-future housing deficit are badly mistaken. /fin