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So the more stringent the local housing regulators are, the more I should be able to find safe, decent, affordable places to live. Whereas in a place where the

So the more stringent the local housing regulators are, the more I should be able to find safe, decent, affordable places to live. Whereas in a place where the average project goes through fewer hearings, where the words "affordability" and "equity" rarely cross planners' lips, the housing should be poor quality, unsafe, way too expensive, only the rich living there. And if I go to a neighborhood that violates every principle of current housing regulation, it should be an unlivable blighted hellscape. Right? How's that consumer protection working out?

plaguepilled 4y ago
Well, yes, that supports my point. Go look at Sydney's property market and the related alleged corruption.
- zol 4y ago
  Source? I’d like to go look.
  - plaguepilled 4y ago
    For details of widespread defects. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/14/more-than-a-quarter-of-new-sydney-apartment-blocks-have-defects-report-suggests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/14/more-... For specific instances of corruption relating to construction, this is detailed across a few FriendlyJordies videos but I'm strung for a link right now. Will comment if I find it later. Edit: there's also this https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/nsw-corruption-gladys-berejiklian-is-just-the-beginning,15592 https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/n...
lostdog 4y ago
You can have good and bad regulations, and too much and too little regulation. The only really dumb position is that fewer regulations = better always. For example, there are tons of building codes that keep houses from falling down, and make them livable in many other ways. Those seem good. Others that say that we shouldn't poison the air or water too much. Also good. So yes, much of the consumer protection is working very well thank you. There are a few places where we went overboard and need to cut back.
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Yes, Germany and Austria and Singapore and places like that are doing better at this than America. But you're probably thinking about communist California that passed prop 13 and a bunch of other regulations in the decades before it even became majority Democrat.

plaguepilled 4y ago

Well, yes, that supports my point. Go look at Sydney's property market and the related alleged corruption.

zol 4y ago
Source? I’d like to go look.
- plaguepilled 4y ago
  For details of widespread defects. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/14/more-than-a-quarter-of-new-sydney-apartment-blocks-have-defects-report-suggests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/14/more-... For specific instances of corruption relating to construction, this is detailed across a few FriendlyJordies videos but I'm strung for a link right now. Will comment if I find it later. Edit: there's also this https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/nsw-corruption-gladys-berejiklian-is-just-the-beginning,15592 https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/n...

lostdog 4y ago

You can have good and bad regulations, and too much and too little regulation. The only really dumb position is that fewer regulations = better always. For example, there are tons of building codes that keep houses from falling down, and make them livable in many other ways. Those seem good. Others that say that we shouldn't poison the air or water too much. Also good. So yes, much of the consumer protection is working very well thank you. There are a few places where we went overboard and need to cut back.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

Yes, Germany and Austria and Singapore and places like that are doing better at this than America. But you're probably thinking about communist California that passed prop 13 and a bunch of other regulations in the decades before it even became majority Democrat.