Cities also benefit from local growth. More people means more funding for local schools and roads and everything else that makes a city a city. What has happene

Cities also benefit from local growth. More people means more funding for local schools and roads and everything else that makes a city a city. What has happened in recent years however is that local elected city leaders do not think in terms of the best interests for the collective. They think in terms of keeping their jobs, bending over backwards towards those who donate and vote in these local elections. A demographic that is by and large older, whiter, richer, more conservative, and more likely to be an existing homeowner, who in California stands to benefit from exponential increases in real estate values on top of a fixed tax rate based on their purchase price vs current valuations.