The kind of people who run for HOA president.

Any excuse. The real thing they’re thinking “I’ve got mine, now everybody else F-off and die already.”

This is… not true. At all. High density housing creates the conditions necessary for transit to be useful. There is already demand for higher density housing all over the place, and typically the reason it isnt built is because:

1. The government prohibits it.

or

2. Building low density housing is cheaper because the government subsidizes the construction and maintenance of roads, utilities, and services.

or

3. Land owners only sell land in desirable areas where there is demand for high density housing at extremely inflated prices because they are able to speculate on the price of land, which makes building high density housing more expensive.

Of course, if you build a train to the middle of a corn field and then sell the land to whoever the fuck, they will tend to build an apartment building there. But almost always, these are terrible places to live. It’s a mass produced apartment in the middle of a corn field. And there is no reason to build train tracks into corn fields when we can simply allow and encourage infill development in areas that are already nearby