Zoning feasibility goes mainstream

Our AGF post on the “Zoned Capacity Illusion” got a warm reception, with shoutouts from NYC’s Deputy Mayor during Mayor Mamdani’s Reddit AMA on housing; and from Matt Yglesias on why YIMBYs need to center zoning feasibility in addition to incrementalist zoning strategies. In high-rent cities, where construction costs for hi-rise fireproof construction will pencil if allowed, Missing Massive is an essential tool for unlocking what Jane Jacobs called “cataclysmic money”, a.k.a. an upzoning for large multifamily, in the most attractive central locations, that pencils out immediately instead of decades from now.