My experience is rather that elected popular idiots try their hand at disciplines they understand nothing about. For example, marketing a residential area with terraced houses to private builders without being aware of the consequences. Wherever the motivation for this came from.
The motivation is simple to understand, I believe I already explained it in this thread: they actually understand quite well what the people want. And the people are competitive believers and individualistic, i.e. they initially see a "chance" in "deregulated" each individually in their building plot compartment - "MY property - MY non-communication - beyond the boundary the flood" to try their "luck." Because what does the builder have in mind? - their dreams!
These are pictures of model houses with which they have charged themselves. From the expensive building land, they would prefer only the floor area, all around only boundary distance, more of it only on the south side. Huge windows so that not more than this fence distance is needed for light - even better would be if this area were not needed at all, and the light was simply brought by the Zalando man in bottles. The builder dreams least of a construction site logistics; you can see that in the discussions about financing here: the plot and base price of the house plus surcharges for deeper windows, walk-in shower, and clinker bricks are listed. They would prefer to "rent the excavator just for a test drive," grudgingly postpone the carport construction to a second phase due to notary fees and property taxes; the utility provider should actually gift the construction power, as that would also be advertising for them.
One would only spoil relations with such potential voters by raising a finger and explaining that they should let themselves be "paternalized" by the majority of their row neighbors in a concerted action to build. At some point, the Zlatko-ization of the voters affects political quality. Stupidity works like communicating vessels: a generation of L-block builders "reflects" their attitude sooner or later also on municipalities, which then think nothing of a surface-level development.
That progress is slow and still requires a classic crane due to the lack of a heavy-duty drone - who’s to blame for that?
Humor is when you build anyway