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within our annual housing forecast survey (see the results on page 17), I got what I deserved from more than 300 of you. There also were calls for the feds to place controls on materials costs, as well as the charmingly hopeful response of “Mutually beneficial regulation” and the simplistic “Get rid of the NIMBYs.”.
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