"politically connected" is a poor choice of words for the concept I was trying to get across. Like, I'm not at all surprised that people that live and work in a

"politically connected" is a poor choice of words for the concept I was trying to get across. Like, I'm not at all surprised that people that live and work in an area would vote themselves a law that says that their rents must be cheaper than they otherwise would. There's significant negative long-term consequences of it, but those mostly fall in other times and places.