[tzs]

Weren't those mostly in place before most people who currently live in those places moved there, and don't people often chose where to live based on the rules and regulations of that place?

I wouldn't call moving into a place being forced to live under the rules and regulations of that place.

Changing the rules and regulations on people who already live there, though, I'd say is forcing because it can be a major effort to move somewhere else, especially if they are an owner rather than a renter.

[msandford]

They changed the rules and regulations that made housing prices go roughly 3x before I was old enough to buy a house. Why is locking me out of the housing market by preserving other people's paper wealth a moral imperative? Are they more deserving of the money because they're older? Because they already have it?

I know the real answer is because they can vote for things that preserve it, and I can't vote for things that erode it.

People complain that millenials aren't buying into the american way of life while simultaneously making it so unaffordable as to be roughly financial suicide to participate.