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Two related issues:
1) I can only randomly build additional housing in a city. Soemtimes the option is there, other times it is not.
2) I would love a warning when one of my cities needs more housing, assuming #1 is fixed.
But the bigger problem for me is that the FIRST LEVEL of a city is unreachable unless you build extra housing. That just doesn't seem reasonable to me.
Yes, it seems like you have to build 2 or 3 hovels or else the town will never get to the next level.
I think I figured it out. You can only use 2 2x2 squares for a lvl 1 town, and you need 2 hovels to be able to grow to the next size town. This means if you build 2 large improvements, like a mine and farm, your town will never grow. But if you build 4 hovels, you will grow 2 town sizes fairly quickly.
Any idea how many inns per town are optimal?
Edited title. Not a bug, just an iffy design. I've gimped my cities too 
There is another problem with this. When you hover over the city you see something like that:
Max. city size: 30
City size: 31
Citizens per turn: 1
Turns to advance: 19
I marked the buggy/confusing pieces of info. If your city maximum size is 30, it should never be higher, period. If you can't reach a next city level, then you should be notified that you will never do it, if you don't build more houses.
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