Sorry, that is a very narrow point of view that's only popular as of relatively recently. People who block housing in cities because they don't want the cities

Sorry, that is a very narrow point of view that's only popular as of relatively recently. People who block housing in cities because they don't want the cities to be "overcrowded" are ridiculous because: 1. Cities are by definition dense areas 2. If you don't want to live somewhere dense, move where fewer people want to live 3. Your right to your own property doesn't extend past it 4. You are destroying productivity and allowing landlords to extract excess productivity from the whole population, so the effect is almost definitely not the one that you think it is. For smaller communities in ecologically fragile areas, there are more nuanced arguments, but even then those people should prefer managed density because: 1. Density keeps sprawl at bay and is better for the environment 2. Residents won't be able to afford to live on their little patch unless they own the land 3. Even then their area will become a museum around them and they certainly won't be able to preserve the idyll they wish to. In any case, most of the supply problems can be solved without major changes to what people often refer to as "neighborhood character". Everything from ADUs to just allowing a few extra stories does quite a bit to increase the capacity of an urban area.