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Agree that that increasing the production and thus the supply of market rate housing units (for sale or rent) is a key to solving the affordability problem. But isn’t part of the problem a change how residential units and land zoned to allow their production are being consumed? When units purchased or rented as pied-a-tierre they are not available to individuals or families shopping for a full-time residence. https://rpa.org/news/lab/nyc-hits-new-pied-tierre-peak-amidst-housing-crisis

Nor are units lost to consolidation, perhaps to accommodate a family comfortably, but also to recreate gilded age size mansions. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/nyregion/nyc-apartments-housing-crisis.html

And some of the largest new luxury towers fill massive interior space with very large units (thus relatively few), many of them uses as pied-a-terre. https://www.6sqft.com/infographic-how-nycs-supertalls-compare-in-height-and-girth-to-international-towers/

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