I agree with your point in general. In these cases, I’m specifically focusing on regulations for issues that evaporate with central coordination:
- Government is doing the central coordinating, so overriding zoning shouldn’t result in uncoordinated planning: gov will also incur the related infrastructure costs. - If you relax zoning and room size minimums everywhere, the minimum cost to live everywhere decreases, so no particular spot becomes disproportionately vulnerable to concentrating the negative externalities of poverty while simultaneously you decrease housing cost based poverty everywhere.
I agree with your point in general. In these cases, I’m specifically focusing on regulations for issues that evaporate with central coordination:
- Government is doing the central coordinating, so overriding zoning shouldn’t result in uncoordinated planning: gov will also incur the related infrastructure costs.
- If you relax zoning and room size minimums everywhere, the minimum cost to live everywhere decreases, so no particular spot becomes disproportionately vulnerable to concentrating the negative externalities of poverty while simultaneously you decrease housing cost based poverty everywhere.