Comment by magduf

People don't need single-family homes. People in other countries do just fine with multi-family dwellings: high-rise condos, apartments, etc. In cities which are steadily increasing in density, single-family homes are utterly wasteful, and completely unnecessary. You can only fit so many of them in a given area, whereas with a high-rise, you can fit hundreds of people into the area used by a small handful of single-family homes.