Comment by Irongirl1

Nope. Not a housing shortage. There are plenty of empty buildings that are simply zoned incorrectly (ie: zoned for a different time when those uses where the focus). We (the country) are on the wrong side of the demographic curve to suddenly throw up 5-6 million more units. Let's make more flexible zoning changes instead...and possibly only need to 1 million units. It's better for the environment and would probably help save alot of historic buildings too.