goldenlight18 t1_j7pi35g wrote on February 8, 2023 at 2:18 PM

Reply to comment by Jerry_Williams69 in How Can We The Increase Affordable Housing Supply? Ideas? by twentiesforever

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/obstruction-zone-how-vermonts-land-use-regulations-impede-new-development-and-complicate-the-states-housing-crisis/Content?oid=35279122

Act 250 actually has discouraged good growth and made McMansions about the only thing you can build because a Mcmansion does not immediately trigger Act 250 or zoning issues... a few might but even then its a low barrier to clear because its one home instead of multiple.

Jerry_Williams69 t1_j7plfmt wrote on February 8, 2023 at 2:42 PM

OK, but that is just part of the problem. I come from a part of the country without Act 250. All developers built there were McMansions because they generate large profit margins and people will buy them (often at their own financial peril). Removing Act 250 will just result in more sprawling overpriced McMansion developments because that is all developers will build. The free market doesn't want to build affordable housing.