[credit_guy]

You can bribe those people. If any new building on your block gives you a tax abatement for 5 years (which is then absorbed into that building's construction costs), then you bring a serious economic incentive to YIMBY. You can tune up the amount of tax benefit until YINBY outvotes NIMBY, and then you're good.

[snovv_crash]

That sounds like a way to make construction more expensive. Transfer money from new buyers to existing owners. This is against the entire premise of the article.

[credit_guy]

All things being equal, it would, indeed. However, the main driver of the high real estate prices is the artificial scarcity of locations. If you can remove that, you'll see prices collapse all over the country. To remove this scarcity, you need to fight NIMBY.