It's not just local governments. It's lack of quality jobs, lack of access to mental healthcare, poor enforcement of drug policies, lack of purpose. Additionally, you have investment firms buying homes and rental properties, then driving up prices to increase shareholder value. There's nothing human about that. I don't mind local governments creating pockets of low-income housing and building centers to help treat those with mental health problems. What I do mind (and what is happening), is big dollar companies coming in with no regard for the local citizens, building whatever they want to make a buck, then leaving without any regard for the fallout of what they care. I do mind when local politicians profit from this, either directly or indirectly. That's what's happening.

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