The article doesn&#x27;t talk about quality of life at all, phrasing everything in terms of housing prices.<p>&gt; &quot;Disbursing some of the tax revenue earned as a result of new development to landowners within a small area around that development to compensate for short-term hardship would reduce opposition to new building.&quot;<p>With 5x as many people, traffic in the Bay Area would be 100x worse.<p>Or, say you magically install a perfect public transportation system.  Still, are you going to clear 5x as much land for parks?  (No.)  Where are you going to find five Muir Woods?<p>I don&#x27;t want to live in Manhattan.  The basic problem is overpopulation.  Even if we relaxed rules to allow denser construction, you&#x27;ll just have the same problem again in a decade or two.  (How much denser can you make Manhattan?)  But with a lower quality of life for everyone.