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IMO, the best way to make housing cheaper is to make it smaller. Your examples are fair, but as you note, they bring a LOT of safety with them even so.
by PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
IMO, the best way to make housing cheaper is to make it smaller.
Your examples are fair, but as you note, they bring a LOT of safety with them even so.
- barelysapient 3y agoI think a _LOT_ of safety is overstated. I'd be curious for an assessment of code-preventable fatalities of home occupants from, say, the 1960s until today. I'd be shocked if the cumulative building codes since then to today could be shown to save even a single year of, say, 2022 of automobile fatalities (about 43,000 people).
- barelysapient 3y agoReplying to myself, I know, but then how about we work out how many fatalities are occurred due to housing affordability? Code costs need to consider that too; since increasing costs means less people get houses to live in. And homeless people have a dramatically shorter life expectancy than housed people.