[davidw]

The first step is to legalize a much broader array of housing types. Apartments, condos, small lots, townhomes, cottage clusters... all of it.

I'm involved in housing advocacy locally, and a huge impediment to building more is zoning and NIMBYism.

[rpmisms]

Zoning should be used to keep factories out of neighborhoods, nothing more. Also, building code is making houses boring. Should be a third-party standard, like UL.

[zbrozek]

It kind of is. Most places just adopt the IBC and make a few amendments.