Ehh have to disagree on this to a degree. People often forget that policies like building codes and permits started off solving a very real problem of unsafe construction by unscrupulous scum. Of course, they now mostly exist to maintain their own bureaucracy, but having some codes and an efficient enforcement mechanism needs to exist. At least they're done at the county state level, which is constitutionally justified to a degree.
The problem with regulations is that many of them are good. At first.
Then like 20 years later you realize how fucking stupid chapter X paragraph Y is and it fucked up the building dynamic in the whole city leading to low supply and astronomical prices.
So why can’t the regulations be per county? Generalizing regulations to large areas is fatally flawed. It’s also much easier to manage regulations when the regulated area is small
Ehh have to disagree on this to a degree. People often forget that policies like building codes and permits started off solving a very real problem of unsafe construction by unscrupulous scum. Of course, they now mostly exist to maintain their own bureaucracy, but having some codes and an efficient enforcement mechanism needs to exist. At least they're done at the county state level, which is constitutionally justified to a degree.
The problem with regulations is that many of them are good. At first.
Then like 20 years later you realize how fucking stupid chapter X paragraph Y is and it fucked up the building dynamic in the whole city leading to low supply and astronomical prices.
Yeah I used to live in San Fran.
So why can’t the regulations be per county? Generalizing regulations to large areas is fatally flawed. It’s also much easier to manage regulations when the regulated area is small
And they create housing shortages by limiting development.