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Originally Posted by chris08876
Cities need to be rezoned. A housing shortage is a self-inflicted wound. Rezone the cities, provide the climate to develop, and you will see prices go down.
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Modern building codes are an enormous problem.
You can’t build walk-ups or tenement-style apartments anymore (which I understand to be an ADA issue - that needs to go). Parking requirements are a problem as well.
And most modern construction is so terrible that it’s a shame to lose anything pre-war for some painted concrete econobox that looks like a suburban Motel 6 (which is what 90% of new multifamily housing looks like).
In most cases you end up with this crap:
https://goo.gl/maps/mhCV3BNWren
When you build ugly cities, people don’t want to live in them. So you can’t just re-zone cities for density, because without big changes to building codes and architectural standards, the cities with decent bones would be ruined. They would get cheaper, but probably more because of reduced desirability than increased supply.