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The real blocker to building more housing is overbearing local codes. Local municipalities adopt building codes that are so stringent as if you were building s
by antisthenes 2y ago
The real blocker to building more housing is overbearing local codes.
Local municipalities adopt building codes that are so stringent as if you were building some kind of nuclear bunker, and local builders/developers happily use it as an excuse to gouge potential home-buyers to extract the absolute maximum they are willing to pay.
Let people build what they want on their land. Someone wants to build an ADU in their backyard? Let them. Let them do it shoddily if they want.
Building more is 90% of driving down costs.
- orwin 2y ago> The real blocker to building more housing is overbearing local codes. Isn't that the new plan? I'm not partisan on this, I understand that some Americans didn't like the fact that it remove local power do forbid new construction. Centralisation/decentralization is a complex issue and I don't have the knowledge to have an informed opinion.
- mrgoldenbrown 2y agoCutting red tape is part of the plan discussed in the article, and the article also points out that the feds can't entirely fix the problem because they don't control local zoning and codes.
- tharmas 2y agoIn Vancouver Canada supply was not the problem. When certain people raised the alarm about foreign buyers buying up the supply the charge of racism was trotted out to shut them up, even when the person raising the alarm was of the same race as those buying. Housing is now an Asset and all its problems of affordability derive from that. A lot of people are assuming supply is the problem.