To further address your ignorance; High density planning prevents affordable starter homes from being built because they do not meet Y value, and through the Uniform Codes that force nothing but overkill designs Y value is achieved. In other words, we do not have a free market, Junior. Pertaining to property taxes, Oregon used to have a renters refund program that rebated property taxes collected in rents back to the working poor. Liberal democrats gutted this program and raised property taxes on the working poor further pricing them out of affordable housing. here's where I will seriously confuse you with simple facts. I am a moderate democrat, not a tea party member.