Socialist Progressives

Still partway through, but I know I'd be far happier if large developers weren't allowed simply to build for profit without any real oversight other than zoning and bare minimum values. For decades, the large field between my residential street and one of the main roads in town was a fenced off testing field to see how well various types of coatings for metal weathered. The company that owned it had said they planned to decommission it at a town hall meeting and would allow landholders on our street whose land adjoined it to buy the land behind their properties back to that main road. Fast forward a decade or two, they finally decommission it, and what happens? They sell the whole thing to a developer... for less than the price any one of the dozen or so property owners who adjoined the lot would have paid simply for their 'strip', much less the entire lot. The developer sticks in two dozen tiny houses and makes a million or so in profit off of land they bought for 10 or 12 thousand, while the rest of us are cut off from increasing our lot sizes and given a bunch of new neighbours whose windows look directly out at us in an area we never had to particularly worry about before, so that we suddenly have to keep curtains closed a lot more.