We can devise smart strategies to protect local communities from real estate developers’ abuses, etc.
Local communities in many parts of our nation — including the Olympia WA area where I live — are being hurt in several ways by real estate developers and other entities that cut down trees and build on lands that should not be built upon (including areas with toxic waste buried underground, areas on dangerous slopes, and so forth). Those wealthy financial entities have corrupted local governments to let them do that. In some cases they even are allowed to avoid having to pay taxes that they should be paying — and are subsidized in various ways by local governments […]