This is one of many many regulations and requirements that make housing so damn expensive. When you combine all these overburdening regulations together, the r

This is one of many many regulations and requirements that make housing so damn expensive. When you combine all these overburdening regulations together, the result is: you can't have cost effective housing anymore. At the very least they should open up a few square miles of space where they relax some or all the regulations a bit. This would allow developers to innovate and drive down the cost of housing. We haven't seen much meaningful innovation in housing in the last 100 years, at least none that addresses cost. Imagine what a great world we could live in, if everyone could build what they wanted as easily as building a website. There's a lot of issues to tackle, i know, but it's a good starting point for progress. And considering that most of our incomes go to housing, it's the most important area for progress.