Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How Mark Zuckerberg Might Attack The Affordable Housing Crisis | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

[Brian Bartholomew (bartholomew.brian]

There's nothing tricky about this zoning reform.  The relevant
legislature could pass a one page law that says 'the density cap in
area so-and-so is repealed'.  Then, if there were any possible ways to
lower housing prices that had been banned by the zoning, they would be
allowed to occur.  One alteration I would expect to see quickly are
bunk beds to enable more unrelated college students and young
professionals to live together.

Maybe the next problem would be the existing sewage treatment couldn't
handle a tripling of population.  Then the sewer bills could be
calculated per-resident rather than per-connection, and raised enough
to build more capacity.

There are many limits to carrying capacity, but the zoning limits are
ones a legislature just made up.

Brian