Erin Butler’s March 12 letter responding to your editorial “Oregon, the Rent Control State” (March 4) hit a nerve with me. I live in Washington state where the Growth Management Act was passed in 1990. I can see the desire to prevent sprawl, but the act left a lot of stuff out and didn’t plan for the unintended consequences. When you limit a resource (growth boundaries) the price of land increases. Add the heavy hand of the environmentalists who added thousands of dollars to the cost of regulatory...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 17, 2019 17:37 UTC