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As an owner of two homes, I've never lobbied anyone for better zoning laws for me, and actually I've done the opposite. Not everyone is cookie cutter.


I imagine most home owners don't do any lobbying.

But it is true that politicians don't like increasing property taxes and other policies that could draw down the housing market.


The problem is that though a lot of homeowners would themselves benefit from dropping prices (most would love to trade up, and as long as we don't end in negative equity, dropping prices would help with that), most people don't seem to understand, and see the house as an investment of the "I can afford a more expensive house" kind (ignoring that those more expensive houses are also more expensive because of the price growth).

Overcoming the psychology of that is politically hard.




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