[davidf18]

There are just a few major metro areas in the US where much of the rent-seeking for wealthy landlords is much of a problem starting with SF, LA, SD, Boston, NYC, DC. Not all cities bow to the wishes of wealthy landlords by making land scarce through artificial political means with the resulting huge financial windfall for wealthy landlords at cost to renters and millennials trying to buy a home.

[undersuit]

And the Japanese zoning model mitigates more than just the problem of exploitative rentiers buying and corrupting local government