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You remind me of two things I have read here at hacker News in the last few months: 1. We have made substantial gains in productivity over the last few decades
by readthenotes1 3y ago
You remind me of two things I have read here at hacker News in the last few months:
1. We have made substantial gains in productivity over the last few decades in many areas, but not in construction. The leading candidate for the cause is that we have increased regulations to keep things stable.
2. A private company in San Francisco was going to buy a downtown office building and converted into housing, hoping that even though that is incredibly expensive there would be enough demand. But then they realized that San Francisco had mandated a large percentage of new multifamily housing units must support low rent tenants and it made the whole project completely infeasible.
- davidw 3y agoThere are regulations, and regulations. Those regarding, say, fire safety are pretty important and worth it even at the cost of productivity. Zoning, on the other hand, that keeps corner stores, apartments and condos out of some neighborhoods... that is a huge problem and doesn't really exist for safety reasons.
- wardedVibe 3y agoEven fire safety is frequently done in an overly onerous and ineffective way, e.g. the double staircase requirement that doesn't apply in many other places because other, more space efficient solutions were found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM&t=648s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM&t=648s
- readthenotes1 3y agoI have a friend who is putting in a temporary tent structure for a party on top of a swimming pool. Fire Marshal said it must have a sprinkler system...