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In the book Golden Gates (https://www.amazon.com/Gold..., the author argues that YIMBYism has a greater chance of passing when actors from outside the locality are allowed to vote by using federal law to supersede local prohibitive ordinances to build more affordable housing units.

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Govt monopolies are accountable to people through voting. Corporate monopolies are often disallowed by anti-trust rules since they lead to price fixing hurting consumers. That's one reason there aren't large companies since anti-trust laws don't allow for it.

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