>> "...government initiatives to increase the supply of housing..."
The government zones the way it does today on purpose, to create a built environment and social structure that insures you have to work all the time to afford housing and a car. This makes you docile and governable and taxable.
This is an overly cynical view of zoning. While zoning today in most cities is overzealous, there are good aspects to zoning too (compared to what came before).
