One interesting cultural thing at a company I worked for was to not say "no", and instead say"yes, but have you considered..." Restricting immigration and reproductive rights is not going to go well, politically, but pointing out that it is seems there's a need to be some sort of overarching plan to actually absorb X number of people into a system with a carrying capacity of Y number of people, especially because it seems "the market" hasn't been able to solve that, given how widespread the housing crisis seems to be (though I'm biased because I live in one such region). Cities do have urban planners drafting capital improvement plans(CIP) (usually), but I don't know how much top down directives are involved to say the plan must include plans to increase housing by X%, especially when X can't actually be planned for.