All of those things are just a symptom of the economic problem. Existing owners lobby for those things because those things make them rich. Every building not b

All of those things are just a symptom of the economic problem. Existing owners lobby for those things because those things make them rich. Every building not built leads to everyone in the neighborhood making another dollar. When being a NIMBY makes you money, everyone becomes a NIMBY. When you align incentives and setup a Land Value Tax, not having enough housing in an area raises taxes. Suddenly people come out of the woodwork becoming YIMBYs to get those people housing so that their taxes drop. If people still want aesthetic and other factors, they can have it. But it's going to cost them.