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> A diverse spectrum of zoning is important, but we also have a diverse free market that doesn't all want high-rise condos and apartments absolutely everywhere.

If you're using zoning to accomplish that, you don't have a free market.

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Having limited SFH zones does not prohibit a person from pursuing any number of housing option that works best for them.

Zoning explicitly allows you to have undervalued property. A sfh in the center of an economically bustling city is substantially more valuable than you suggest. You should expect to pay the price of housing multiple people, because that's the potential value of the property.

Actually, yes, it does. That's exactly what it does.

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