Since I'm on a subtooting spree this morning, let's keep going.
A weird take I saw the other day was people blaming urbanization for high housing prices.
And,
Okay,
Urban living is incredibly efficient in terms of provision of services (healthcare, housing transportation, education, power, water, sewage, etc.), energy usage, and carbon footprint. Suburbanization and sprawl are major drivers of global warming.
Low-density development is not sustainable. Our suburbs are built on tax breaks and initial sales windfalls and then left to rot because they do not generate enough tax revenue to maintain their own infrastructure.
They are cheaper in part because nobody* wants to live there, and because building standards are much lower (and it's easier to use easily-exploitable migrant labor to build them).
Relatively speaking, of course; I will inevitably get "but I love my exurban mcmansion!" replies.
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