"everything to do with scarcity of housing" No - the initial premise here was that people should have to accept "affordable housing" in their neighborhood. You

"everything to do with scarcity of housing" No - the initial premise here was that people should have to accept "affordable housing" in their neighborhood. You can build affordable housing elsewhere if scarcity is the problem. "On the other hand, acting against socially good measures with sole purpose of profitting from them is evil." What do you mean by "profitting from them"? Is it profitting if I pay more for my house so that my kids don't encounter drug dealers on their way to school? And that would then somehow be evil? In general it seems absolutely normal to want to protect the value of ones investment. Like if you pay a premium to have a view to the lake. Then it isn't "evil" if you want to prevent somebody to build a skyscraper between your house and the lake. It would be evil to sell somebody a plot of land with promise of view to the lake, and then build a skyscraper in front of their house to block the view. That would simply be fraud.