[dsfyu404ed]

People decades ago said exactly what you're saying and that's how we got local regulation. It turns out local regulation just entrenched the problems more deeply.

I've yet to hear a good reason why recursion is going to solve the problem instead of entrench it at the next level up.

[djajshgsjja]

Housing supply is in part a collective action problem. Lots of people will benefit from development somewhere else, but lose out from the local effect of development down the block. If the net effects of a development are positive, but the negative effects are concentrated whether local power can block the development, less development will happen and people are worse off overall.