Or perhaps we choose not to because packing in more people is not the only variable in this optimization problem. Unfortunately, people don't particularly enjoy living like battery hens, so we need to balance quality of living against cost-per-capita and other factors.
SFH's are probably not optimal. But IMO you're constructing strawmen.
Gardens are a particularly weird topic. Longtime residents will object to new development that ruins the viability of their longtime garden. YIMBY's will scoff in indignation. But I swear some of these YIMBY's are the same ones boosting the organic & eat local movements.
Speaking of gardens, people scoff that you have no right to sunlight for your garden, and no expectation it won't be blocked. Yet out of the other side of our mouths we issued the Solar Rights Act, to protect your right to sunlight for your solar panels.
SFH's are probably not optimal. But IMO you're constructing strawmen.
Gardens are a particularly weird topic. Longtime residents will object to new development that ruins the viability of their longtime garden. YIMBY's will scoff in indignation. But I swear some of these YIMBY's are the same ones boosting the organic & eat local movements.
Speaking of gardens, people scoff that you have no right to sunlight for your garden, and no expectation it won't be blocked. Yet out of the other side of our mouths we issued the Solar Rights Act, to protect your right to sunlight for your solar panels.