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*laughs in trying to work with Scott Turner's Vichy HUD*

State capacity is going to be a huge issue as housing advocacy moves beyond zoning. Zoning codes are relatively simple, and reform can often involve dramatically simplifying administration – e.g., cutting entire sections for minimum parking requirements. Building codes though (ROAD includes some...

...guidance on point access blocks, and I believe it still has some HUD Code manufactured housing reforms) are complicated and making it easier to build housing doesn't always involve cutting text – sometimes it involves adding regulatory text to, e.g., give designers more options. Housing and...

...construction are heavily regulated and will likely always be heavily regulated, so even smoothing the road to more housing will involve a strong regulatory state, maybe even more so since you want it to be capable of adjudicating issues instead of deferring to industry-written standards whose...