Rebecca Picciotto

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How a Parking Lot Fight Explains America's Housing Shortage · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

It's something that kind of allows you to circumvent this aesthetic pushback that you might get if you're trying to build an apartment building.

This lighter touch density approach works best and most effectively in places like Wichita, Kansas, where you have

large stretches of land that people are able to build on because this allows developers to manage the increase in their construction costs, build two homes on one lot, get two streams of revenue where they would have previously only had one.

There are many reasons.

Many of these reasons are the ones we've heard for decades.

It's the aesthetic pushback.

It's the traffic constraints.

It's the feeling that a city doesn't have the infrastructure to support new population that a housing boom might bring in.

You're also seeing many developers experiment more with factory-built housing because it's easier, cheaper, faster to build, and the technology has really advanced.

But these are not always architectural masterpieces, these modular apartment buildings and modular homes.

And

So you tend to see some resistance to that aesthetic disruption.

Exactly, exactly.

But at the end of the day, it does get the housing built more quickly.

And I think the technology is advancing in a way to try to make them a little prettier, but it's a work in progress.

Yeah, I think as we head into the early voting season for the midterms, affordability is at the top of every elected official's mind.

And as a result, every politician who is campaigning for office this November wants to show that they have a victory on housing.

We are seeing this congressional housing bill gain much more momentum.

Lawmakers are sending a strong message to local leaders that the federal government

wants to make it easier to build housing.

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