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This is unfortunately the free market at play when it comes to housing. Build as cheap as possible for the best ROI, even if the end result is something garbage
by fzeroracer 7y ago
This is unfortunately the free market at play when it comes to housing. Build as cheap as possible for the best ROI, even if the end result is something garbage for residents. Especially because people often don't have as much choice over housing when it comes to finding a job or relocating.
We desperately need to tighten up some of our regulatory codes and force better soundproofing.
- pas 7y agoBlaming the free market does not seem to make sense here. Soundproofing simply was left out of the code because the buildings of old were sturdy and massive enough to implicitly take care of most of the noise problems. Now new materials and standards are lean enough to conduct sound very well. Oops. Buyers also got wise in the last decade. Now anyone buys or rents the first thing - after location, location, location - is checking how noisy it is. If all housing would have been built by committee, it's just as likely that it'd have taken a lot of time for the committee to change its ways.