It depends, sometimes the laws apply to anything with shared walls

Has Nevada gotten this right? It seems like they're the state that has done construction defect liability reforms that's really led to more townhouse/condo construction.

The physical comedy scenes in that movie are director's cut material for sickos who want to watch 15 minutes of Leonardo DiCaprio trying to walk and talk on quaaludes

I’ve been asked 5,791 times “what is the name of the monster with the ‘teeth ground sharp, and eyes glowing red’?”

Thanks Nick!

I'm not sure if there are any rules that specifically mandate HOAs, but when they require subdivisions to maintain their own streets and/or require subdivisions to have common areas, they effectively mandate HOAs. And this is super common in TX.

Nothing voluntary about that.

I’m very sympathetic to the theory of HOAs and deed restrictions providing a voluntary alternative to zoning, but now we’re in a place where in lots of the country it’s difficult or impossible to build a new single-family house that’s not in an HOA.

I see the Kotkin worldview in the other IFS housing paper: ifstudies.org/report-brief...

My beef is absolutely not with legalizing or building additional multi-bedroom units. It's just with the argument "we don't need more studio apartments for singles, we need houses for families," which I'm hearing with increasing frequency.

Awesome, thank you!

Haha yes great point!

But for the sake of making it possible for more people to have kids, I think even more focus should be on legalizing small, inexpensive rungs on the housing ladder.