Moore's proposition is the exact type of policy discussed in Ezra Klein's new book Abundance, in which seemingly liberal regulations on government development of public transit or housing or high speed rail or clean energy actually hamstring the government's ability to do anything big about the problems it's facing. Happy to see pushback.

Abusive small-time landlords always want to put restrictions on developments and disincentivize developers to make sure nothing gets built back better so people can be forever stuck in the 20th century dilapidated inflated housing or some parasitic skimming rental landlord speculator thinks they can get away with getting rich keeping them oppressed and drained of their equity well no mention of Hollingsworth room sharecropper units of slum and Mark Solomon's slumlord live in building creepy deregulations that are the abomination of what people don't want in their neighborhood but yet he wants to keep it like that sl his modern third world 20th century dilapidated inflated slum