@FrankPasquale
Remember: This isn't a rule of nature which we might claim for space-saturated markets like #Hongkong, #Singapore or maybe even #Liechtenstein, #SanMarino,#Macao as well as #Monaco.

The #USA is just governed by #classist assholes that weaponize #ZoningLaws to ban #AffordanleHousing which would necessitate midrises and apartmet complexes instead of detaved, soulless copy & paste housing in deficit-to-bankrupting #Suburbia that can't even #ROI enough in taxes to upkeep the infrastructure...

@landley @TeflonTrout Personally, I think that the standardized formfactor [20' and 40' units] and superstructure is a good foundation for fast and cheap to build mid-rises and apartment complexes in dense urban areas.

The problem never was the engineering of that - far from it.

• The problem are cities weaponizing #ZoningLaws against people and basically banning affordable #housing by virtue of not allowing anything that has even mild space efficiency - even when compared to a house in rural Germany...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUeqxXwCA0&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa&index=3

And that needs to change!

• Because everytime some big corporation like Amazon can just butter up city administration offices so hard workers there cough up purple [€500] bills and let them build a 20+ floor highrise when every other developer gets told 6 floors are the maximum, they show that said rules only apply to those that can't waste 5 digits on parking tickets...