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It's worth noting that the current system does involve tons of forced relocation. Just because that relocation is often economic or based on the random whims of developers or the construction of even dumber stroads doesn't mean it isn't extremely prevalent. The US' national highway system destroyed half a million homes and displaced well over a million people.
There are a number of things you can do to cut sprawl in a matter of years to decades. Surely many people will willingly relocate to a more sensible and pleasant neighbourhood, but naturally some people will be stubborn and want to remain. We have plenty of options for how to handle entire neighbourhoods and towns of people who would want to remain in place. Redoing layouts of streets, banning the sale or building of new suburban homes, banning suburb rebuilds, mandating housing formats for new constructions, retiring and rewilding/reusing areas, and densifying spaces are a few examples I will quickly explain which will require minimal or no forced relocation:
Lots of suburban streets are ridiculously twisty and houses often have significant road setback distances. By reorganizing your roads into more sensible layouts and cutting into those setbacks with the right-of-way easements, you can de-spaghettify many areas. If people are willing to sell or move, you can even run roads through existing houses' locations to reconnect cul-de-sacs and other dead ends.
You can prevent new construction of mcmansion subdivisions by simply banning them. Simple as, if we're not allowed to relocate people from suburbs, they're not allowed to relocate themselves to suburbs. You could even ban people from moving into them if you wanted, and just let the suburbs slowly wither.
As climate change becomes more rapid, more homes are destroyed by wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other disasters. Doing a managed retreat from the suburbs and preventing these destroyed homes from being rebuilt is an option. A more pragmatic solution would be to use the now-vacant space to build denser cities or more sensible neighbourhood layouts.
Regulating new construction to prevent suburban single-family homes or winding layouts is an entirely sensible solution. When new developments are built, they need to stick to your guidelines and not sprawl.
You can retire areas to gradually allow people to leave without new people moving in. This will take longer, but the process involved allows people to choose to move out or live their lives in their home, but when they do leave or pass away, the home isn't transferable to anyone else. When they're gone, the house is destroyed and the land is rewilded or repurposed for whatever the new use of the space will be.
Densifying existing spaces is another option. Building new and larger constructions closer to existing homes is possible. Your home will stay in place, you won't move, and you'll be in a newer, denser neighbourhood.
You won't move out, okay. We'll do what needs to be done around you, no problem. Nail houses exist elsewhere, no reason they can't exist in north america.