Many of us long concerned about our declining fiscal situation had been planning to get serious about it once we got out of the woods of the slumping economy.
Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families. (Many ritzy suburbs will not allow a property to have a second kitchen for fear that the owner might take in tenants.) Meanwhile, many of the same communities compete to attract high-value commercial developments.