Let's build houses for people, not cars
First off, parking isn&#x27;t flat &amp; spread out. It is very often stacked &amp; condensed into compact areas known parking garages, some of which sit under housing complexes and so take up no extra real estate at all. Presenting the square acreage of all parking spaces like this is a grossly misleading way of presenting the data. 10% of the raw acreage of <i>spaces</i> is very much <i>not</i> 10% of the real estate used for parking.<p>Second, there <i>have</i> to be many more parking places than there are cars, otherwise you would never be able to move your car. You wouldn&#x27;t find another spot, because it would already be taken.<p>Third, even if we imagine a perfect system where you leave your spot, someone leaves their spot and takes your spot, leaving an opening for you, that would still ignore the fact that parking spots are not fungible. You can&#x27;t interchange them, one spot for another, and balance the equation. The spot in front of your house&#x2F;appartment is pretty much useless for nearly everyone else that isn&#x27;t a neighbor.<p>I don&#x27;t have any comprehensive solution to this problem, but what I am pretty sure of is that there&#x27;s no single silver bullet solution that will massively improve the situation. (or if there is such a solution &amp; I&#x27;m just not smart enough to find it, it&#x27;s not going to be found in parking spaces.)