Actually, in my father’s day, there was this one infamous landlord who people used to point at. Who was it, Claude? “Peter Rachman” yes that was it. People used to talk about “Rachmanism” which apparently just meant “being a cruel and unscrupulous landlord”, but which could probably be expanded to encompass home owner associations organizing to lobby against zoning reform if efforts were made, because when people hear ism they expect to see a civic ideology.
Unfortunately one of his most prominent sins was excessive subdivision, so he wasn’t exactly a nimby.
And also, yeah, in reality — for instance in New Zealand which has it especially bad, where substantially more than half of the families in the country own land — land investment is just a popular way of keeping savings. The last Labour government felt a need to promise, despite confessing the will, not to touch it.
Actually, in my father’s day, there was this one infamous landlord who people used to point at. Who was it, Claude? “Peter Rachman” yes that was it. People used to talk about “Rachmanism” which apparently just meant “being a cruel and unscrupulous landlord”, but which could probably be expanded to encompass home owner associations organizing to lobby against zoning reform if efforts were made, because when people hear ism they expect to see a civic ideology.
Unfortunately one of his most prominent sins was excessive subdivision, so he wasn’t exactly a nimby.
And also, yeah, in reality — for instance in New Zealand which has it especially bad, where substantially more than half of the families in the country own land — land investment is just a popular way of keeping savings. The last Labour government felt a need to promise, despite confessing the will, not to touch it.