North Carolina is booming. North Carolina faces an estimated shortage of more than 750,000 housing units. That means rejecting proposals that make it harder for the people willing to build, renovate and provide homes in North Carolina to do so. Institutional investors own only a sliver of the state’s single-family housing stock, but property taxes touch nearly every homeowner and renter in North Carolina. R. Lee Currie Jr. is a former Executive Director of the North Carolina Republican Party and former Executive Director of the Foundation for Economic Education