For what it's worth, my partner actually had the same experience in Brentwood in 2023. I'm not sure if it was poor management, but they seemed to have a lot of trouble getting some part shipped then too.

That's fair.

Can you expand on what you meant about cities reaching abundance through socialist/ communist approaches?

It seems disingenuous to dismiss the value of markets in solving housing problems, but that isn't to say they're the only solution.

I would love to see a world with a DOGE (swap Efficiency for Effectiveness) that is making a serious attempt to audit government and recommend fixes.

Can democrats get excited about improving government? Interesting to note abundance polled better with republicans so it has that going for it.

The primary example of a city without a housing crisis in the book is Houston. They argue its housing abundance is due to the lack of zoning restrictions (there are still some land-use ones though).

Wouldn't that be an example of abundance via a market-based approach?

And it's not unreasonable to expect that fixing bureaucratic bottlenecks without addressing the power corporations have over government would lead to corporations having an easier time enriching themselves.

Not sure where abundance stands on an Amazon Housing solution to the housing crisis

Abundance: "The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
Populism: "The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."

These are totally compatible though.

All the transit stations between freeways feel designed to raise stress levels.

The most generous take I can muster is that the station was not designed with the actual users in mind.