Legalizing Dense Development is the Single Most Effective Solution to the Housing Crisis
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Legalizing Dense Development is the Single Most Effective Solution to the Housing Crisis
The only way to significantly reduce housing development costs is to radically standardize development and harness all the economies of scale by sharing costs between multiple projects as well as leveraging industrialization and prefabrication, the same way it’s done in manufacturing.
Packy McCormick • Apt: The Natively Integrated Developer
Today, only one in three new homes in America is “self-built” by individuals. In the United Kingdom, the figure is an abysmal one in ten. A regulatory thicket makes it prohibitively difficult and costly for individuals to build.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Another of Forrester’s classics was his study of urban dynamics, published in 1969, which demonstrated that subsidized low-income housing is a leverage point.3 World Bank, The less of it there is, the better off the city is—even the low-income folks in the city. This model came out at a time when national policy dictated massive low-income housing
... See moreDonella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
The reason Greenwich Village can reconcile such high densities with such great variety is that a high proportion of the land which is devoted to residences (called net residential acres) is covered with buildings. Relatively little is left open and unbuilt upon. In most parts, the buildings cover the residential land at averages estimated as rangin
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
As the needs of a city change (for example, San Francisco’s crushing demand for housing and ensuing housing cost crisis), the fact that all those existing single-family homes and duplexes are quite valuable (and getting more so) is a huge barrier to redeveloping the city with a new land use pattern (six-story flats, etc.) that would be a rational r... See more
Do Things Need To Burn for New Things To Grow?
What matters is that housing shortages may be the biggest problem facing our era, and solving it needs to become everyone’s highest priority.