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The Greek Trick to Ending America’s Housing Shortage

What a mid-century European idea can teach America’s single-family home sale gridlock

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Michael Moore
Sep 29, 2025
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A quaint street in Athens, Greece. Photo by Daniel Silva on Unsplash

America’s housing crisis is not a mystery of physics. We have land, labor, and money; what we lack is a way to reorganize land that’s already tied up in low-density parcels without triggering tax bombs, displacement, or endless permitting fights. Mid-20th-century Greece stumbled onto a …

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