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This is simply not realistic in any heavily populated city. I especially hesitate to encourage DIY house building on major earthquake faults.

• subhobroto 8y ago
  DIY or not DIY, a house once built has to conform to building codes and those codes take earthquake, fire and hazards into account. So my followup questions to your observation are: 1. In your experience is this false? does a separate set of building codes apply to DIY vs. a developer? 2. In your experience has DIY houses built upto code shown a higher likelihood to fail than a developer built house? 3. In your experience is a savvy developer with no ties to the property more likely to respect building codes than the owner who will be living in it for decades to come? 3. In your experience is a savvy developer more likely to use higher quality, longer lasting materials than the owner who will be living in it for decades to come? Thank you for your observation. I am interested in your thoughts on the following: I wrote this comment because I notice a huge lag in supply of housing. Even less when you take the quality of the building into account. I wrote this comment because building codes are terribly onerous right now. Its very expensive and overwhelming to a DIYer. Solving the supply side seems like a good solution to me. However, just saying "Let there be houses!" does not make houses appear. There has to be people available who can actually build them.