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Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience. Whenever a dense blo

Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience. Whenever a dense block of housing is proposed, people abuse zoning regulations here to shut it down. They add on tons of extra costs (mandatory parking etc) and then complain about how much the houses cost. Go look at your city and see if it's actually legal to build a new mid rise apartment in the city center. I'm guessing, if it's anything like every city I've ever lived in, it's not.

Ensorceled 3y ago
> Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience. We might just be disagreeing on terminology, there is a difference, in my mind, between regulations that require something bad to happen and regulations that ALLOW something bad to happen. If the regulations ALLOW something bad to happen that's a "lack of regulation" > Go look at your city and see if it's actually legal to build a new mid rise apartment in the city center. This might be a US vs. Canada thing ... we are building mid-rise and high-rise in multiple cities around me right now: Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Hamilton, Burlington. What we are NOT building is a lot of apartments. Developers want to build and flip if they are allowed to.
- brewdad 3y ago
  In my area of the US, we have zoning laws more favorable than most. Even so, you can't build anything but SFH on my street. You can subdivide your acre lot and build 10 homes where there used to be one, and some people have done this. Still, you won't be building any duplexes or attached homes. Only detached single-family homes allowed.