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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by nerfhammer on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:20PM (#15560985)
Build sufficient housing and they won't see it as a sure-thing investment anymore. They're betting that local politics will never allow this to happen.
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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by saosebastiao on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:25PM (#15565188)
You're right, and they're right. It would take a monumental shift in politics for local governments to give up their ability to buy favor with local residents through land use code.
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