Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice

Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by strken on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:16PM (#20072386)

I wish that regulators would stop assuming that "cultural values" are more important to me than paying half as much rent, and that I shouldn't be allowed to live in a cheap studio with a built in mezzanine.

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Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by ShorsHammer on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:56AM (#20073729)

I've said this repeatedly about Sydney, plenty of people would live in capsule homes given the chance. For a lot of people in the inner city you don't actually spend that much time at home besides sleeping.

Local landowners would lose their minds though.

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Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by andy_ppp on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:28PM (#20072445)

They aren't, there are no regulations on this. I hope you get what you wish for.

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Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by strken on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:11PM (#20072614)

There are usually quite a lot of regulations on dwellings, often including room size, layout, window placement, ceiling height, etc.

The specific "guidelines" for places I've lived are:

https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0030/...

http://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/residenti...

The San Francisco guidelines are particularly onerous, but the Victorian guidelines still set e.g. minimum sizes for bedrooms and living areas.

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Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by geofft on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:03PM (#20072581)

In the US there certainly are regulations on that!

https://jorgefontan.com/micro-apartments-minimum-apartment-s...

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-supervisors-back-...

https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/27/18281150/santa-monica-micro-...

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Re:Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice by JumpCrisscross on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:52PM (#20072543)

> there are no regulations on this

Of course there are. FAR limits, zoning rules, all manner of review processes inhibiting construction, et cetera.

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