housing development

New housing developments could also prove a way to create wildflower meadows.

In a June commentary in the Los Angeles Daily News, Joshua Schank — who helped shepherd the gondola through the Metro bureaucracy — said the gondola project would “open up new areas for critical housing development.”

She said that as material costs rise, the cost of new housing development will increase, too, which could in turn prompt developers to rethink low-margin affordable housing projects.

Reed insisted government reforms would help developers build more homes, including mandating new housebuilding targets for councils and "more powers" for him to call in - or review - "unreasonably" rejected housing development schemes.

For example, they could buy up property in housing developments.