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This seems really great, housing 230 people on land that cost $400k 25 years ago, but I suspect it would be illegal to do this in almost all of the Western worl
by haihaibye 5y ago
This seems really great, housing 230 people on land that cost $400k 25 years ago, but I suspect it would be illegal to do this in almost all of the Western world where people want to live.
It's basically an exercise in rezoning. If you were allowed to build that many housing units originally then they would have been outbid by a developer.
- foxhop 5y agoThe buildings look like condos to me, everything is in the building code specs and it looks like they have systems the building code should adopt like positioning the building for maximum solar photon gain and winter solar heat gain.
- haihaibye 5y agoI'm not talking about the internal community village rules, but the local government/council permits to construct dozens of houses on farmland. For instance where I live farmland is cheap until it has permission to build a house on it, then it's much more expensive. If you could buy it then get permission to build 50 houses on it, you would make many millions the instant after the rezoning. Thus, the rich with connections in local politics do this crowding out the communities like these guys. I suspect their secret sauce is local government connections and lobbying / legal expertise to rezone.