It&#x27;s always interesting to me how people go to municipal government meetings and continually suggest that, on the one hand, jobs should be plentiful, while on the other hand, housing should be scarce.<p>If you have X jobs in city B and Y housing units, where X &gt; Y, you have a tight housing market.  If X &gt;&gt;&gt; Y, then people can&#x27;t even just double-up with roommates anymore.<p>I&#x27;m perfectly willing to talk about the <i>moral</i> trade-off involved in asserting that the born-and-bred residents of a city have a <i>right</i> to residence which they can assert <i>over</i> newcomers, to keep transplants out, but first we have to get the <i>economic deadweight loss</i> of insufficient housing supply off the damn table.<p>Build baby, build.