Okay, I think building on the greenbelt is immoral and short-sighted… but people who think it wouldn’t help with home prices are just being anticapitalist to a fault. You add more supply, and it controls prices. Come on, we all spent the last few years learning how shortages drive up the price of computer chips, cars, and toilet paper. Why should housing be any different?

The correct thing is to kick municipal governments in the balls until they let more buildings get built as green infill and simultaneously work on building more public housing and co-ops and getting more trained builders into the market.

But while destroying the planet and our traffic woes, paving the greenbelt would’ve helped with housing prices.