Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:58PM
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> The restrictive zoning laws are at the local level, not the state level.
True, but the restrictive zoning laws are made possible at the state level.
A thread here on HN a few weeks ago mentioned Japan which they described as having basically 5 classifications for "types of things you can do on land you own", ranging from "essentially anything at all" to "notable limitations". Within whatever classification your land is given, you can do whatever you want, local neighborhood be damned.
I don't know if that's an accurate description, but it sounds like a system with a very different set of tradeoffs than the one found across the USA.
True, but the restrictive zoning laws are made possible at the state level.
A thread here on HN a few weeks ago mentioned Japan which they described as having basically 5 classifications for "types of things you can do on land you own", ranging from "essentially anything at all" to "notable limitations". Within whatever classification your land is given, you can do whatever you want, local neighborhood be damned.
I don't know if that's an accurate description, but it sounds like a system with a very different set of tradeoffs than the one found across the USA.