Abestos, water contamination, fire suppression, flood zone, etc. 

To them it means that "people are fleeing to the areas perceived as safer" but I wonder if it instead indicates an opportunity to buy a suppressed asset in Springfield proper.Oklahoma City is roaring right now, Tulsa is literally paying people to move there. 

Some economists estimate that we are 5+ million housing units behind the demand.This housing shortage continues to drive rents ever higher, yet home values remain suppressed.

I am not quite sure why the moderator keeps suppressing the thread - is it against the rules to ask for advice?

Although, isn't the vacancy always suppressed by whatever time the owner personally has blocked off on their calendar?

I think it's much more complicated as government intervention tends to reward a group of business owners and suppress competition which often is detrimental to some business but beneficial to others. 

This is going to suppress rental prices of individual houses, be it for STR or regular rentals. 

Cough cough Leman Brothers cough cough sub-prime mortgages.It's easy to blame investors or even Wall Street and the financial sector but asset bubbles like that would not be possible without the Federal Reserve empowered to artificially suppress interest rates whenever they feel like it.

I have spoken with a few people from the city about it and have been informed that this will take me into commercial structural code, that would require a fire suppression system and an architect to draw up the plans to make sure all codes are met.

I still think Clayton is taking a big risk trying to squash this - the Streisand Effect suggests that an attempt to suppress embarrassing or damaging information will just draw more attention to it.