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Have you ever been to an area that doesn't have regulations on housing? No, thank you. There will be some crappy ones, but overall it's a win.
by dhimes 7y ago
Have you ever been to an area that doesn't have regulations on housing? No, thank you. There will be some crappy ones, but overall it's a win.
- big_chungus 7y agoI've been to places with more and less regulation. I've noticed that while California is significantly more regulated than Kansas, I'm much more likely to see a "quirky", "fun", or "exotic" domicile in the former than the latter. The government has a much greater capacity to hinder than promote legislatively; we have seen a hindrance of normal housing and a promotion of very little in its place.
- elil17 7y agoHuston doesn't having zoning laws and they're doing fine. Have you ever been to an area that doesn't have regulations on housing?
- closetohome 7y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2017/08/30/did-houston-flood-because-of-a-lack-of-zoning https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2017/08/30/did-houst...
- elil17 7y agoThe article's title: Did Huston Flood Because of a Lack of Zoning? The article's actual content: >All the same, it doesn't seem that tight regulations, or less development, have prevented flooding in other cities. When New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it had far less impervious surface than Houston does now; in fact, its population had been declining in every decade since 1970. Alas, the tragedy wasn’t about that anyway, but about infrastructure that collapsed and spilled water into a flood plain--a flood plain that had been developed despite New Orleans' strict zoning laws. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, it damaged a metro area that, overall, is both denser and more regulated than Houston. In the last decade alone, flooding has also hit Iowa, Georgia, Tennessee, Colorado, and various other regions with diverse geography and regulations.
- astura 7y agohttps://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-houston-really-does-have-zoning-sort-of https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h... “We do have a lot of land-use regulations,” Festa said. “We still have a lot of stuff that looks and smells like zoning.” To be more precise, Houston doesn’t exactly have official zoning. But it has what Festa calls “de facto zoning,” which closely resembles the real thing. “We’ve got a lot of regulations that in other cities would be in the zoning code,” Festa said. “When we use it here, we just don’t use the ‘z’ word.”
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe person you're replying to was talking about building codes, but then you started talking about zoning laws. These aren't at all the same thing.
- dhimes 7y ago> Huston doesn't having zoning laws and they're doing fine. Have you ever been to an area that doesn't have regulations on housing? Say what?
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoAnd is people taking dump on the streets better and safer?