Zoning failures are widespread throughout the country. If more people want to live somewhere, those regions should make it as easy as possible to develop housing and incentivize it
You seem to frame it as an exclusivity problem - they're trying to exclude people from affordable housing...
while the people who live there look at it as preserving what makes it livable
neither are right or wrong on their own, but surely build at all cost isn't a solution to mountain town charm
>while the people who live there look at it as preserving what makes it livable
And they're free to buy up all the land and choose what they want to do with it
This is objectively not true in urban areas like San Francisco or New York City