[supertrope]

When people don't know many facts about an issue but it affects them personally they rely on ideology to form opinions. e.g. They follow what other people on team red or team blue think. Or just apply a pre-conceived notion of regulation being the solution, or de-regulation being the solution. Hence you get counter-productive conclusions like new supply in the form of new luxury apartment construction being the cause of rent inflation.

[zjp]

This is true, mostly. I suspect SF and NYC NIMBYs know full well the legal limits of building in their respective cities.