Houston in Dallas who can simply expand externally into new land are hardly a proxy for a land real estate constrained city like New York that has to build vertically
And how is their mass transportation going? As if houses alone are all that matters.
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
~21 million people
2021: 59,383 total units
2022: 60,602
2023: 41,674
2024: 61,159
2025: 6,777
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
~7.5 million people
2021: 69,007 total units
2022: 75,786
2023: 68,336
2024: 65,296
2025: 11,057
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
~8 million people
2021: 74,617 total units
2022: 77,501
2023: 66,725
2024: 72,319
2025: 9,836
Using Houston alone, NYC is not #1 in raw numbers and in 2025 so far is only permitting 60% as many units as a CBSA 3x smaller than it.
I don’t know if HOU/DFW are the CBSAs pumping out the most units nationally though, they just came to mind.