You'd think the "free-market conservatives" would realize that the zoning restrictions that prohibit dense transit-oriented development in the remaining 99.99% of the developed land in this country are driving scarcity-driven price spikes in urban cities, and therefore advocate for loosened regulations against such development to allow the developers and transit agencies to fill the market demand that's clearly present, but somehow they've overcome the cognitive dissonance to convince themselves the government must outlaw apartments because detached single-family homes in a sea of sprawling freeway suburbs is the way God intended Americans to live.

Every single one of those cities you listed is run by Democrats though.