Build. More. Houses. Subsidize the lumber industry if you have to. Also, update building requirements to favor sturdier materials. Most homes in the US are ma

Build. More. Houses. Subsidize the lumber industry if you have to. Also, update building requirements to favor sturdier materials. Most homes in the US are made of pine 2x4s that get obliterated by minor tornadoes. The homes of my great grandparents and beyond are all made of cypress 4x4s and 2x6s and higher. They've been hit dead on with tornadoes and terrible hurricanes and the worst that's ever happened to them is some missing shingles. When I was a child in the 70s and early 80s, you would find all sorts of old abandoned sharecropper homes lining River Road that were made of cypress with corrugated aluminum exteriors. The rich would buy these homes up, one by one, strip them of their exteriors and take the frames for use in their new homes. Why? Because it's cheaper than buying the new stuff, and clearly the materials are sturdy.