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We need to do more to make low cost housing legal. By allowing more low cost alternatives, builders could create low cost housing or rentable units, so people
by pascalxus 10y ago
We need to do more to make low cost housing legal. By allowing more low cost alternatives, builders could create low cost housing or rentable units, so people wouldn't have to camp in tents. This is a problem nationwide, too many regulations are stifling housing innovation.
- ctdonath 10y agoHere we have the consequence of trying to solve poverty by making it illegal. Having raised the standard of living so high, on the notion of ending bad conditions by simply prohibiting them, we now have to reverse regulations so people can live as they can at their level.
- pascalxus 10y agoRegulating away "bad conditions" doesn't get rid of the cost for it. It merely eliminates your choice in the matter, forcing everyone to upgrade. It's like, if you outlaw all car designs that don't have leather seats - all the sudden, everyone gets leather seats in their car, but they're still paying extra for it, whether they like or not. that's what regulation does in the housing markets, but much more extreme.