{"id":3199,"date":"2020-08-07T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:05:48","slug":"trumps-tweets-about-saving-the-suburban-lifestyle-dream-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3199","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tweets about saving the \u201cSuburban Lifestyle Dream,\u201d explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;An interesting lacuna to America\u2019s mostly market-oriented economy is building houses. Most of the population lives in places where this activity is subject to a comprehensive regime of central planning, which states and which parcels of land can have houses built on them, what the minimum size of a parcel is, how many dwellings can be built on a given parcel (typically just one), how tall the building can be, how much yard space and parking there needs to be, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the regulation of house-building is about safety \u2014 electricity needs to be up to code and sewage needs to be able to be disposed in a responsible way. But most of it isn\u2019t. There\u2019s nothing unsafe about a 12-unit, four-floor apartment building \u2014 it\u2019s just illegal to build one in most places. Building rows of houses that share exterior walls is a space-efficient and cost-effective means of creating single-family homes, but it\u2019s illegal to build them in most places. Big, shiny condo towers only make sense in places where land is very expensive, but there are some parcels of very expensive land where it\u2019s illegal to build them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These rules profoundly shape the built environment in almost every American metropolitan area.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/8\/3\/21347565\/suburban-lifestyle-dream-trump-tweets-fair-housing\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/8\/3\/21347565\/suburban-lifestyle-dream-trump-tweets-fair-housing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An interesting lacuna to America\u2019s mostly market-oriented economy is building houses. Most of the population lives in places where this activity is subject to a comprehensive regime of central planning, which states and which parcels of land can have houses built on them, what the minimum size of a parcel is, how many dwellings can be built on a given parcel (typically just one), how tall the building can be, how much yard space and parking there needs to be, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the regulation of house-building is about safety \u2014 electricity needs to be up to code and sewage needs to be able to be disposed in a responsible way. But most of it isn\u2019t. There\u2019s nothing unsafe about a 12-unit, four-floor apartment building \u2014 it\u2019s just illegal to build one in most places. Building rows of houses that share exterior walls is a space-efficient and cost-effective means of creating single-family homes, but it\u2019s illegal to build them in most places. Big, shiny condo towers only make sense in places where land is very expensive, but there are some parcels of very expensive land where it\u2019s illegal to build them.<\/p>\n<p>These rules profoundly shape the built environment in almost every American metropolitan area.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[270,411],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-housing","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}