> So the disaster can spread nationally rather than being contained locally? The local vs global incentives differ, which is why removing local power will help

> So the disaster can spread nationally rather than being contained locally? The local vs global incentives differ, which is why removing local power will help. At the global level, voters care (a bit) about things like social unrest, homelessness, their kids being priced out of housing. And the 'burden' of increasing housing is shared roughly equally across everyone. At the local level, the incentives work very differently. If the local community restricts housing, they get all the benefits and push the costs (homelessness, housing crisis, etc) onto broader society.