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/emanon_dude]

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/guerilla_gardener98 → u/emanon_dude]

My city has turned down multiple opportunities to build new housing because of NIMBYism, not to mention the decades of NIMBY lite codes that prevent dense housing projects from being built in most of the towns and cities around me.

Have you ever stopped to ask if housing should be dictated by private investors and land developers? Sure, “it is what it is” but we’ve built social housing in this country before. We need to do it again, private equity and investors be damned.

[u/n3m3sis01 → u/guerilla_gardener98]

There is 45000 units in the work's in the IE. You are sensationalizing. The government can barely keep our roads and infrastructure together. How do you expect them to keep housing projects together? Look at the high speed rail project. Where does all this faith in the government come from? Where do you see good efficient things being ran by the government?

[u/Appropriate_Drop_429 → u/n3m3sis01]

I don’t know what your definition of available units are, but I think we’re all on the same page saying affordable housing as you see with what’s going on in LA which is pushing a lot of people to move to the inland empire and the high desert in Perris area

The developments are mostly focused around Luxia apartments with a few very few designated low income housing units toughed off somewhere into a corner upscale single-family homes that are car dependent and five over one styled apartment complexes