Eventually, yeah, there's a breaking point and industry will abandon that area.

But in the meantime, excluding people from one of the most economically productive places on the planet is hugely detrimental for the 'marginal' people who end up not living and working there. The economy overall loses out a lot, too.

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5901041/nimbys-are-costing-the...

Also: there's a climate change argument to all of this. Forcing people out of a region that actually claims to care about it into places like, say, Phoenix or Las Vegas or Dallas or other sprawly places entirely dependent on cars... is not a win for the environment.