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The Invisible Reason for High Housing Prices: Restrictive Land-Use Regulations
- HarryHirsch 3y agoWhat are we doing about the appalling quality of construction in the US? My in-laws live in a pretty standard 1960's midsize apartment building that went up when Lisbon expanded under Salazar. You really can't hear the neighbours because it was build in concrete with proper sound insulation. The stuff that you see built nowadays in the US is still matchstick and sheetrock, of course no one wants to live in conditions where you can hear everything that's happening on the other side of the wall.
- maerF0x0 3y agoWe can have both. Density and Quality. IMO City building code should be more for the latter anyways.
- 10g1k 3y agoAgree 100%. Where I live, land releases for development are tightly controlled by the government, and purely by coincidence, the politicians are massive land owners in the areas which are strategically approved for development. For example (as exposed by one good investigative reporter a few years back), the weird path approved for a new suburban railway just happened to run through an area in which a bunch of these politicians owned investment apartments and townhouses.
- mint2 3y agoParking requirements are a big reason
- davidf18 3y ago[dead]