No, rich yuppies can still afford to live near work. It’s the service workers that can’t find affordable small housing, and then need to spend an hour each way on the train to get to their jobs.

You can’t impose “minimum standards” for housing by fiat any more than you can make a plane fly by regulatory directive. That idea displays a level of ignorance comparable to flat eatherism. All you can do is push on the balloon—and when you do, it’ll bulge out somewhere else. In the context of housing, that means if you make it illegal to build housing for poor people in places wit jobs, you’ll either make them homeless, unemployed, or you’ll saddle them with long commutes from places with affordable housing.

>You can’t impose “minimum standards” for housing by fiat

Of course you can. This is precisely how the modern world operates.

>any more than you can make a plane fly by regulatory directive.

This honestly sounds like a childish understanding of governance. How you can compare two entirely different things? Aerospace is perhaps the most regulated mode of transport than I can think of. Planes are, quite literally, kept flying by regulatory directive. I'm embarrassed for myself that I need to stoop to explain such a fundamental working of the world.

>That idea displays a level of ignorance comparable to flat eatherism. All you can do is push on the balloon—and when you do, it’ll bulge out somewhere else.

I think you've either got a lot of reading to do or you're a young person who's been inculcated with a juvenile ideology. In either case you need to rid yourself of this simplistic world view.

>In the context of housing, that means if you make it illegal to build housing for poor people in places wit jobs, you’ll either make them homeless, unemployed, or you’ll saddle them with long commutes from places with affordable housing.

You need to have more imagination here. Most countries manage this just fine.