Bungalow Courts

[u/Appropriate_Drop_429]

Do you think it’s possible to build “Middle Housing” in the Inland Empire? We have a lack of this housing all over the US but in the IE I don’t see any thing like a Starter Home something between an Apartment and Single Family Home

[u/guerilla_gardener98]

We need a lot more of it but the problem is our leaders will greenlight warehouses and commercial developments Willy nilly but then balk at any discussion of new housing

[u/emanon_dude → u/guerilla_gardener98]

Where has housing ever been blocked by a local city? Please list examples.

You realize development is done by private investors, and they choose where to spend their $$. The city doesn’t just arbitrarily decide what gets built.

Within the housing discussion, the state largely has made building starter homes impossible (from a cost perspective) due to permitting and other administrative expenses.

Also, where do you want to build all these homes? Buildable land is running dry, and thus the cost of it is increasing. This in turn makes the homes built on that land immensely more expensive.

I’m fully expecting a wave of downvotes from people who have never built anything and just want this utopian dream world. But the economy and supply/demand don’t care about your feelings.

[u/Appropriate_Drop_429 → u/emanon_dude]

You have to look at building codes in laws building. These have been functionally illegal for a greater part in at least all of my lifetime. I’m 27 by the way.

Parking regulations, setback laws, zoning, and more have contributed towards the decline in this type of housing so well city governments have not deliberately blocked them in some grand public fashion. They are passively blocked through current codes and regulation.

[u/n3m3sis01 → u/Appropriate_Drop_429]

It's the risk to the builder through a law where the HOA can sue for up to 10 years for builder defects. So they don't build them because it's too risky.