u/wiz28ultra

It doesn't develop rail or roads and it's largely failed at building domestic jobs.

A general perception I've noticed among critics of Blue States is that Texas's housing policy is so ingenious that it is single-handedly driving the explosive population growth, absence of poverty, and economic dynamism.

I've personally been skeptical that Texas's policy is alone to drive their cheap housing, and I'm mixed about whether or not the current legislation we've seen enacted in that state we'll see Austin reach Brooklyn or Queens levels of density within the next 1-2 decades. I think we seriously underrated the impact of historical context and Texas's relative newness by being only settled en-masse after the normalization of AC and large-scale elimination of Malaria helped with the fact that they don't really have NIMBY communities.

Now, the thing is that this makes me worried that there might be other circumstances that aren't just housing policy that might define the slowdown of housing construction in Blue states. Idk how certain we can reverse what's happening in California and turn it into a PRD or Taiheyo belt style megalopolis if we just focused on emulating SB 840.