>>1809029Your idea of 'walkable' means mid/high rise domiciles either in or adjacent to an urban core. That means that the construction cost will already be much higher than outlying areas, and most people don't want to live in multifamily buildings in the first place. High rises are generally built and priced for upper income earners, so most people can't afford them even if they wanted to live in one. And that's ignoring social problems of those same areas like shitty schools, homeless, etc. I know you have a pie-in-the-sky answer for all of that too, but people aren't willing to wait around to see if those problems ever gets solved.
Contrary to the echo chamber of urbanist blogs, most people still see far more value in relatively larger suburban single family housing that has almost none of the aforementioned external problems. That's why it continues to be built, not because of the mean old government man.
