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Only when your assumption is that the government wants to make it hard to build houses, but why would the government want that? That's the part that makes no se
by mcv 1y ago
Only when your assumption is that the government wants to make it hard to build houses, but why would the government want that? That's the part that makes no sense.
- appreciatorBus 1y agoThe government does the things that organized voters care about. And the most organized voters are homeowners afraid of living next to someone poorer than they are, or a building taller than theirs. So they lobby the government, as they have for the last 100 years, to implement a raft of land used laws that make it all that impossible to do anything but sprawl on the edge of the city, or demolishing & evicting apartments and to build slightly taller apartment buildings. Wherever you live, I guarantee the largest bylaw in your municipality is the one that is composed of the government listing the residential buildings you aren’t allowed to build on most of the land in the municipality.
- mcv 1y agoAnd yet there's tons of building going on. It's true, you can't build everywhere, but there are a lot of places you can build.