Re: your first paragraph, my hunch is that: 1. renters are less invested in the local politics given their more flexible and transient nature, therefore they c

Re: your first paragraph, my hunch is that: 1. renters are less invested in the local politics given their more flexible and transient nature, therefore they care and vote less than people who have assets and multi-decade skin in the game 2. voters aged 45+ are less likely to be renters, given lowered likelihood of moving with age, and the higher likelihood of having locked in cheap real estate decades earlier. Those voters also tend to vote more 3. therefore renters are far less represented in elections Entirely possible the above is wrong, there might be data showing otherwise.