Vienna Could be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis, climate change (opens in new tab)

If everyone's climate was like Vienna's, air conditioning wouldn't be all that necessary. I swear that the better the climate, the worse the NIMBYism.

If someone magically erased NIMBYism from Marin County, California, within a year it would become extremely affordable with much less environmental impact per capita.

We had a similar plan in Switzerland where a constitutional target of 10% of non for profit housing could have been set. Unfortunately, a large part of the population are labour aristocrats so they probably saw themselves as potential future landlords and saw it as a threat against their old age income.