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by Auracle 1115 days ago
Housing is (almost) just as bad in rural areas, where there's plenty of land to build new houses. It's just supply and demand.
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This is supply and demand:

https://twitter.com/stuartbdonovan/status/166414741287168409...

Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.

>Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.

At the same time, none of these things other than roads/utilities are a requirement in my country and housing is still rising in price much, much faster than anything else + wages.

They aren't requirements or you don't know they're requirements?

(Some countries like the UK don't have this because it's even _worse_. There are no written requirements of what's legal to build, because nothing at all is legal to build without convincing a planner to allow it.)