Insights: How much affordable housing can we build on public land? Most cities and towns have vacant or underutilized land owned by the municipality and other levels of government. For instance, an easy walk from my home takes me past a vacant patch of land where an old firehall was demolished when a bigger one was built nearby. While previously these properties may have simply been sold off to generate revenue, communities are now increasingly looking to these lands strategically to address the housing crisis and to bring back affordability. But how much underutilized municipal land is there...