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> build higher-density housing with smaller setbacks, less required parking, smaller room and unit sizes, etc That's what we've been doing here in Australia to

> build higher-density housing with smaller setbacks, less required parking, smaller room and unit sizes, etc That's what we've been doing here in Australia to deal with a housing crisis; now there's a looming oversupply of apartments [1], and a lot of them are barely habitable "dog boxes" [2][3] built as investment assets (rather than, you know, for living in) while house prices are still sky high. [1] http://www.domain.com.au/news/australia-to-have-too-many-homes-in-2017-bis-shrapnel-report-20160308-gnd9jh/ http://www.domain.com.au/news/australia-to-have-too-many-hom... [2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-14/melbourne-dog-box-apartments-targeted-in-new-design-guidelines/7732678 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-14/melbourne-dog-box-apar... [3] http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/03/melbournes-dog-boxes-in-the-sky/ http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/03/melbournes-dog-boxes...

pchristensen 10y ago
Again, I'm not saying to REQUIRE any of those things, simply make them not illegal. If developers build an oversupply housing that people do not deem acceptable at any price, then people will not buy/rent them and they will be removed. If people are renting them, then people find it an acceptable tradeoff. Sweatshop jobs have been more attractive than rural poverty since the Industrial Revolution began, and small, "substandard" apartments are a choice that many people would choose over longer more expensive commutes, health care, better nutrition, working one job instead of two, or any thing else that can be purchased with money.
- jordwest 10y ago
  Oh totally, I'm not disagreeing. I just think those regulations are there for a reason, and in our case the regulations have been wound back too far and now we have to adjust in the opposite direction.

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> build higher-density housing with smaller setbacks, less required parking, smaller room and unit sizes, etc That's what we've been doing here in Australia to

by jordwest 10y ago

pchristensen 10y ago
Again, I'm not saying to REQUIRE any of those things, simply make them not illegal. If developers build an oversupply housing that people do not deem acceptable at any price, then people will not buy/rent them and they will be removed. If people are renting them, then people find it an acceptable tradeoff. Sweatshop jobs have been more attractive than rural poverty since the Industrial Revolution began, and small, "substandard" apartments are a choice that many people would choose over longer more expensive commutes, health care, better nutrition, working one job instead of two, or any thing else that can be purchased with money.
- jordwest 10y ago
  Oh totally, I'm not disagreeing. I just think those regulations are there for a reason, and in our case the regulations have been wound back too far and now we have to adjust in the opposite direction.