[PEN-L:11478] Home Mortgage Deduction

[ZAHNISER STEVEN SCOTT <zahniser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a recent posting, Jim Devine asked whether the home mortgage
deduction will soon be subject to attacks similar to those directed
against affirmative action.  I have sometimes wondered about the extent to
which the deduction fuels the conversion of rural lands to large tracts of
new housing.  Has anyone on PEN-L done any work about the environmental
and other consequences of the deduction?

Steven Zahniser
zahniser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx