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Market forces shaped by poor zoning and building codes. $800/m is still precarious for roughly twice minimum wage. Food is also more expensive and harder to ge
by bsanr2 7y ago
Market forces shaped by poor zoning and building codes.
$800/m is still precarious for roughly twice minimum wage. Food is also more expensive and harder to get to in less upscale areas of most cities.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoNot sure how zoning and codes raises housing prices? Poor codes would result in cheaper housing (with no alarms or sprinkler, weak roofs that collapse under snow load, thin walls etc). And zoning can definitely reduce housing costs. In my city developers were required to mix single-family and multiplex in neighborhoods.
- bsanr2 7y agoThe opposite also happens: barring multi-family dwellings that would reduce costs, and enacting codes that would allow for cheaper, but still safe, dwellings. The former is happening in pretty much every city, and there's no shortage of reporting on it, so I'll leave that to you, but for the former, I would specifically look at the laws that are forcing advocates of tiny houses and backyard apartments to continue fighting. Toronto recently reformed their laws to allow for the latter, after years of pressure. Suffice it to say, these situations are far more common in cities than the ones you've described.