Why is the situation always "lets attempt to tax investors who are notorious for skirting around their full tax burden" instead of directly attacking the condit

Why is the situation always "lets attempt to tax investors who are notorious for skirting around their full tax burden" instead of directly attacking the conditions that lead to this area being a favorable area to park money in the first place? Namely, you have too many jobs and not enough housing. Sometime in the last 100 years, leaders around the western world realized the massive real estate opportunity of strangling natural urban growth and price gouging on the limited supply they artificially created through euclidean zoning and countless layers of regulatory process meant to disincentivize investment in development. Just build more housing, and a lot of the economic ills of the 2020s around the world will evaporate.