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Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? by ngould on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:45PM (#11639882)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the mortgage interest tax deduction as a contributor to sprawl. I.e. federally subsidized home ownership. Talk about reasons to ditch your downtown rental and borrow against a grassy slice of suburban land.

http://freakonomics.com/2012/06/29/homeownership-and-suburba...

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Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? by WalterSear on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:28PM (#11640146)
> federally subsidized home ownership.

More like federally subsidized mortgage lending. It's like health insurance or any other market with a locked-in consumer base: putting more money the demand side en masse doesn't improve supply, it just increases the prices.

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