I'm a inactive General Contractor, and union electrician. I'm not going to read a 49 page pdf today. There are two things that really affect supply. 1. Gove

I'm a inactive General Contractor, and union electrician. I'm not going to read a 49 page pdf today. There are two things that really affect supply. 1. Government regulations is number one by a huge margin. We all know what that includes; zoning, persnickety council members who literally debate where a window is placed, the wood or stucco you can use, down to hedges, and even the color of your home. Look at what Bill Mahar had to go through in order to build a shack in his backyard. (Gavin Neusome made some great changes these last few years. They arn't being used though. Why? It's still dam expensive to build anything. I've noticed a a few well off wealthy guys in my county using ADA units to increase the sq. footage of their homes. But most folks don't have the money to build. 2. The cost of constructing is high. Every-time a new code goes into building it just adds up. And I know how most of you love these safety codes. The problem with over coding is the law is the law. My father once got a failed final permit on the electrical Service installation. The law states you need 30" of space around the panel. The Service was in a concrete hallway. He was failed because the panel was 29". The inspector was a childhood friend of my father. Yes--it says something about my father too? I knew a guy whom was failed a final electrical install because he didn't have the right sticker on two of his receptacle. A sticker. He didn't even know buried in the code there was a law over a missing label. The recepticals were standard 15 amp residential recepticals. This guy said HUD, and NAHB, are not helping the situation. He is probally right. I did look up NAHB lobby monies for 2021, and it was 3.275 million. Which doesn't seem outrageous. If this guy's thesis is we need to encourage manufactured housing; I'm all for it. Just pay the guys a union wage. Housing, and the way we treat our Homeless, are my two big hot buttons. If you don't have a place to sleep, and shower, you are fucked. It's not a big problem. Some "Progressive" jack ass running for something in LA wants to not give a homeless person a room. He wants to house them in army barrack style housing, and using the single room as a carrot if the poor slob is a good boy. If a guy buys some land, let him do whatever (within reason) with it. And yes, that means putting up a tent on it if he wants. I'm disenfranchised over our lack of homes in the right economic zones, I don't see much ever happening. One thing Russia did right during their experiment with Communism is they built those huge concrete apartment buildings. Everyone was pretty much guaranteed a room. We need those big buildings now. We need to have hard building codes (like foundations, roofing, mechanicals, etc. We then need the soft codes. A guy should have to rip out a Service panel over a 1" violation. If you are ever interested in what it takes to build anything, watch the community station that plays the local town meetings. I guarantee you will want to throw the remote at the tv.