Because the person who has owned the house a long time doesn&#x27;t have higher income to make up for it, they&#x27;re likely a retired person on a fixed income.<p>Since you want them to move out so bad, why don&#x27;t you have the government <i>pay them</i> to move out?  I never see these local governments offer to pony up $10k or so for the moving expenses for people priced out of their houses to move out.  These people bought a house in a town thinking it&#x27;d be a good place to settle down, not that they&#x27;d be <i>forced</i> out of their house in a decade or two.  It&#x27;s really no better than forced relocation, which is a form of genocide.