Housing: The Case for YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard!)

The policy question here, however, is whether some of us should be allowed to use the power of government against others in order to keep changes from happening that we don't like. Is it right to use political power, the power to initiate violence, against other people who haven't used violence against us? In particular, is it right to use political power to prevent a developer from building those apartments in our single-family neighborhood?