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		<title>Yes, Red Tape and Fees Do Raise the Price of Housing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And no amount of hand-waving about “land values” changes that. | Few public policy issues can match urban housing politics for its incendiary combination of passion and misconception. To wit: the confounding idea that relaxing regulations and fees to decrease the cost of homebuilding won’t make homes more affordable. Why? Because, goes the refrain, developers charge as much as the “market will bear” anyway. Any savings from streamlined regulations or reduced fees just yield more profit for the developer, not lower...]]></description>
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