All cities are blue and believe it or not NYC remains extremely expensive to buy or rent and people do bid on townhouses even in crappy neighborhoods in the boroughs. Agree that there needs to be rezoning for more residences - BTW: lots of vacancies in office parks in “red” states as well and malls have been closing everywhere for the past 15 years as more people work and shop from home.
I have should have said, “hardcore Woke cities” (like Portland) instead of blue cities b/c you are correct...all cities are blue.