Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by munk-a on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:25PM
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Where I am, in Vancouver BC, the price tag for detached houses starts around a million, it's hard to actually find a condo for as little as 200K assuming you'd like decent access to transit or to not live in a sardine can.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by username90 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:49AM
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Found lots of detached houses in Vancouver for around 150k CAD a few miles away, do you mean that you can't find them in the city center? When people say that they pay a million for a house in the valley what they mean is that they paid a million for a house and still have to commute for an hour per day.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:19PM
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Probably because zoning isn’t the reason for high prices in most cities
Personally, I'd rather pay 200K for a home, rather than 1 million $ for the same home but with zoning laws. Now, I don't know if it's a 5 to 1 difference in every case. But, we all know 5 to 1 difference in cost is not at all unusual on a per sq ft basis.