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Are there historical instances of 1) and 2)being successful in reducing housing prices in a high-demand area?


Reducing, maybe not, but stabilizing, definitely. Look at most major cities in Japan, they keep building new apartment towers all the time and prices are more or less stable. Tokyo is an exception right now because of the olympics bubble.



Excellent example.

I was reminded of this video as well when Tokyo was mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w


https://www.zillow.com/houston-tx/

https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/hier1948.pdf

https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/houston...

Houston is a nice natural experiment on zoning laws impact on affordable housing. I believe Houston has more net immigration that SF or Seattle, but has much more affordable housing.




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