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Yeah, it was basically a fixed double-wide mobile home with better materials. I can't remember the movie offhand, but there's a fight scene that takes place in
by bane 10y ago
Yeah, it was basically a fixed double-wide mobile home with better materials. I can't remember the movie offhand, but there's a fight scene that takes place in half of a prefab house on the highway.
The house is still there, still looks fine. A little cramped for adult me, but a perfectly fine place to live and grow up. The house I live in now could fit that house inside of it and have plenty of room to spare. My parents still live there, have all the amenities of a modern home. They turned half the basement into their master bedroom suite and the other half into a nice extended home office.
Housing crises are not going to be solved by tiny houses on half-acre properties. The houses are a tiny fraction of the overall property values -- and are made in a factory, on the cheap, in mass quantities. Making structures has been solved for hundreds if not thousands of years, making land is the problem.
- ChuckMcM 10y ago> Making structures has been solved for hundreds if > not thousands of years, making land is the problem. Well stated. I think land allocation also contributes to the issue. I was pleased that 'mixed commercial/residential' zoning got to be a thing as it makes for a much nicer living experience if you have your basic needs met by walking. I'm still waiting for a mixed commercial/residential/governmental tract where you can have a police station, library, courthouse, and office space mixed in with houses and shops. I remember touring York in the UK and thinking about how medieval villages were set up, they have the taint of 'old times' but they optimized a space for useful living and commerce. I think there are things to be learned there.
- bane 10y ago> I'm still waiting for a mixed commercial/residential/governmental tract where you can have a police station, library, courthouse, and office space mixed in with houses and shops. Especially for "consumer" facing government services like libraries and postal centers. I think getting local governments to mix in more "official" functions might be harder since some of the legitimacy of those functions sometimes stems from the power signalling they use to distinguish the building from the rest of society -- e.g. courthouses tend to be big official looking buildings with lots of wood paneling in the courtrooms. In Korea, where land is at a premium, you find tiny police stations all over Seoul, but even the very small ones tend to be stand-alone affairs. IIR courthouses tend to be either standalone or as part of larger local government centers. http://img11.deviantart.net/5c0d/i/2013/337/5/1/police_station_in_seoul_korea_by_toyonda-d6wnct2.jpg http://img11.deviantart.net/5c0d/i/2013/337/5/1/police_stati... https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/fb6d6675-11fb-40be-8681-ee9063581f82_d.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/fb6d6675-11fb-...
- saalweachter 10y agoGovernment can lease commercial property, the same as anyone else. In the backwaters of upstate New York, half the post offices are in leased buildings, including parts of private houses in otherwise residential neighborhoods. So, you don't really need anything special to provision for local government, just a local government with tax dollars to spend.
- LaMarseillaise 10y ago> I can't remember the movie offhand, but there's a fight scene that takes place in half of a prefab house on the highway. Lethal Weapon 4?
- bane 10y agoI think that's the one!
- ghaff 10y agoAnd we have tons of land as well. We just don't have tons of land in a handful of places where a lot of people have convinced themselves they just have to live or their life isn't worth living.