Baba Basra 118a - Complaining for More Land

In sefer Yehoshua the b'nei Yosef complain that they are a large tribe with too small of an inheritance in Eretz Yisroel. Yehoshua seems to allow them to conquer uninhabited land from other shevatim, or at least to cut down the trees to make what is already belongs to them more inhabitable. However, the Rashbam explains that this could not have been the intent of Yehoshua, because he couldn't steal land from another tribe, and they didn't need special permission to use what already belonged to them. Therefore, the gemara understands that Yehoshua wasn't even attempting to solve their problem, rather he was telling them that since they merited such bracha of increased numbers, they should protect themselves from ayin ho'rah (to which they responded that it wasn't necessary since they descended from Yosef and aren't affected by ayin ho'rah). Nonetheless, it seems a bit strange that Yehoshua wasn't helping them solve the problem that they were faced with? Perhaps the message that Yehoshua was sending them is that they shouldn't complain about the bracha they were zocheh to, even if it comes with a housing shortage. He was telling them to appreciate their bracha and protect it by hiding from ayin ho'rah, rather than complaining about their plight.

On a side note - the Meshech Chochma (Pinchas 26:62) asks why the tribe of Levi was so small, less than half of other tribes even though they counted the children above 30 days old. The approach of the Ramban that since they didn't undergo the shi'bud of mitzrayim, they weren't zocheh to the bracha of כן ירבה וכן יפרוץ, would still not explain why their growth rate was so slow. In the first count (Bamidbar 3:39) they were 22,000 and in the second count they were only 23,000? The meshech chochma explains that since they weren't going to inherit any real part in EY, Hashem had the foresight to keep them small so that they don't complain about their housing shortage, as the descendants of Yosef complained. Furthermore, since they were supported by the rest of the b'nei Yisroel, Hashem didn't want them to be a major financial burden so he limited their growth to completely natural numbers, without any special divine bracha as was given to the other tribes. He then continues to read this into the pasuk which says that they were 23,000, counted from 30 days old "because they weren't given a portion in Israel". Simply, the pasuk is saying that the reason they were counted from 30 days rather than 20 years is because 20 years old was only important for inheritance. But, the meshech chochmah explains that the pasuk is explaining why their numbers were so small - "because they didn't get an inheritance", so Hashem specifically kept them small.