The local government puts taxes on hotels to get money from visitors who don't have a vote. In some cases they put regulations on hotels that limit competition

The local government puts taxes on hotels to get money from visitors who don't have a vote. In some cases they put regulations on hotels that limit competition or make them more expensive to operate. Then they have regulations that limit the production of new housing, artificially raising the price by preventing the supply from growing. Then they have to implement rent control to control the damage caused by that, which horribly harms the market as well. And then all anyone complains about is how their neighbor is doing something they don't like with their own home.