A failure to prioritise the supply of an essential good, plus nimbyism that tries to exclude developments that would cater for the disadvantaged, laws that reserve the act of building shelter to people regarded as qualified and a zoning system that invalidates most of the land that might otherwise be available is a recipe for societal failure. It impairs optimism, disincentives work and leads people to think that their agency as citizens is impaired. What sort of democracy would that be?
A failure to prioritise the supply of an essential good, plus nimbyism that tries to exclude developments that would cater for the disadvantaged, laws that reserve the act of building shelter to people regarded as qualified and a zoning system that invalidates most of the land that might otherwise be available is a recipe for societal failure. It impairs optimism, disincentives work and leads people to think that their agency as citizens is impaired. What sort of democracy would that be?