But by buying a house they're not buying the whole city and the right to prevent others from living there. If these are REALLY the objections, we could find wa

But by buying a house they're not buying the whole city and the right to prevent others from living there. If these are REALLY the objections, we could find ways to mitigate these issues. A reasonable discussion could be had about how fast neighborhoods should change, or what reasonable expectations buyers should have about the neighborhood changing over what period of time around them. However, if more people move in, their single family home in the period of 10-20 years will probably double in value and they'd probably be able to sell it and move to the outskirts of the now-expanded city with a similar character to what they had before, which has become the center of the growing city.