Tim,

No, not provocative just comes across as more obfuscation.

Why are you being so personal? You have had lots of opportunity to explain why you think a particular local society should direct the supply of housing but, at least succinctly in a way that I can muster, have not done so.

AFAICT, economics does not come into this (seems more political to me) but, assuming that my own knowledge of the subject is also insufficient for your argument, will allow for the possibility that it does - in which case I respectfully submit to you that this may be the wrong forum for such a discussion.