Sorry if my previous comment wasn’t clear: I was agreeing with you but saying SFH would be more expensive in cities because it would represent lucrative development land and that would be part of the price.

As for the developer / investor incentives: I don’t think that’s a big issue. Sure some developers who intend to own afterwards will be disincentivized but plenty of people built with the goal of selling immediately, and making it cheaper and easier to build and sell will make those kinds of developers winners in the market.

We’d want robust regulations around building quality (soundproof your goddamn walls and floors) but all the red tape around other homeowners complaining about how big your apartment building is should be dropped.

Anything under 7 stories should be green lit if it meets safety and quality regulation.

This will also massively help cut down on gentrification.