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Guest Column: South Carolina Housing Market Needs More Building, Less Regulation
“The only lasting fix to the housing shortage is to build more…”
“The only lasting fix to the housing shortage is to build more…”
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Less regulation? Have you seen some of the shoddy workmanship that goes into most new homes? Have you seen the overloaded roads that can’t keep up with construction as it is today? Oh yeah, the only regulation this site entertains is making sure poors don’t get mixed in with middle class homes.
This blog has its finger on a construction company CEO’s massage chair and swears it is SC’s pulse rate.
I somewhat see what you are saying but things like building code enforcement aren’t real factors in the large-scale supply and demand dynamics of housing. But I agree with you on the roads. Any governmental efforts in increase housing availability really need to shift from the larger urban areas in SC to more of the medium sized towns that can still bring in certain types of manufacturing jobs – like Orangeburg, Georgetown, Greenwood, Camden, Newberry, Clinton etc.
What this guy wants is to do is transfer the actual cost of real estate development, from the developer/builder, onto all taxpayers, to pay for the impact to infrastructure that is the responsibility, i.e., roads, bridges, etc. In furtherance of his socialistic transfer of wealth scheme into the pockets of developers & builders to fund their fourth and fifth exclusive homes in the mountains, by the seas, lakes, and condo high-rises, is to relieve them of their impact on water, sewer and stormwater systems maintained by local governments, paid for by existing rate payers. If you develop 200 homes on 50 acres, you should pay for the infrastructure costs and of course, pass it on the the consumer – just like the Trump Tariffs. Fits gets paid to promote communism!!!