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Re:How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism by wendyshu on Saturday September 28, 2019 @02:56PM (#21102179)
Land owners want to build higher density, increasing supply, lowering price. The government prevents high density, decreasing supply, increasing price.
Re:How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism by scythe on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:09PM (#21102244)
Only some land owners. Other land owners join organizations like the National Association of Realtors (the second-largest U.S. lobbying spender only after the Chamber of Commerce itself) and try to influence the government to prevent high-density development.