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If you think builders won't screw home-purchasers every chance they get, then you don't know many home builders. There's a reason we have housing inspections a
by ktRolster 11y ago
If you think builders won't screw home-purchasers every chance they get, then you don't know many home builders.
There's a reason we have housing inspections at so many steps in the building process.
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- jessaustin 11y agoActually, there are many reasons, some of which are good for home-purchasers. It might interest you to know that the inspection regimes of different municipalities vary drastically.
- skewart 11y agoBuilding inspections are to enforce building codes, not zoning. Building inspections and building codes are a very good thing. I don't think anyone in these comments is saying otherwise. Zoning and building codes are two vastly different things. Zoning controls how buildings can be used, what types of new buildings can be built, and, in some cases buildings' overall shape and size. Building codes specify how buildings can be built, and what quality and safety standards the construction has to meet. Like many other pro-housing-affordablity people, I believe we should massively relax zoning laws in most places (though not necessarily abolish them entirely). I do not think we should change building codes in any way.
- PKop 11y agoWhat does that have to do with zoning?