You have to love government set quotas on housing. History and local opposition be damned.
Obama is trying to do the same exact thing.
The British need more housing, but they have a lot of ancient obstacles in the ground. One of the complaints noted in the 2013 article is, that the new housing units would just be snapped up by people wanting a weekend getaway or a holiday rental business. The response of course is, so what? If there weren’t so many people laying down in front of the bulldozers, housing prices would come down and there would be plenty of housing. The market for holiday rentals would also fall. Instead, supply remains tight, demand remains strong.