Robert C. Ellickson exposes in convincing detail the deleterious impact of restrictions on new housing.
“Local zoning measures may be the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. Local barriers to housing production elevate housing costs and distort household migration decisions. Nonetheless, members of the mass media tend to regard anything that happens at a city hall as unworthy of attention.” He characterizes zoning’s reach into private life as “Leviathan gone Local.”
https://www.city-journal.org/the-vast-collateral-damage-of-zoning