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It’s interesting to see so many people demanding that home owners have less influence.

My observation is, that whenever residents have little say in how their area develops they dissociate. Trash on the streets and decay and follow.

Perhaps we hn-ers tend to be rule followers? So we'd naturally fall into thinking "well, just make a rule that you can't dump trash", problem solved!

We all know that to perform you need to have „skin in the game“ and „own a stake“, why should it be different with neighbourhoods?

One of the soviets great problems was people not caring about property, as they did not own it.