Is there data on that? &quot;Tons of very tall housing developments&quot; is often not really that many. Eg., a lot of newspapers say that SF is now in a &quot;building boom&quot;. But here&#x27;s the real data, in a graph I just made:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;UFhH4VY.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;UFhH4VY.png</a><p>That tiny, barely-visible bump at the end of the red line is the &quot;building boom&quot;.<p>I haven&#x27;t looked at Canadian data, but 100% of major US cities that built enough housing between 1990 and 2013 have low housing costs:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spur.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;wysiwyg&#x2F;asking.prices.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spur.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;wysiwyg&#x2F;asking.price...</a>