We also need to stop building homes w/ 1900s tech and methods.
You can build just as sturdy/sound a home for 10k using earthbags as you can 200k w/ a contractor, albeit there's a lot of hard work, but if you can do it, then you should be allowed to, but zoning laws don't always look favorable on homesteading.
There's a family on youtube who has like 5 homes (1 for each kid, more like little studio apartments as their bedroom), and a big office. All built for <10k each.
Imagine if you could buy 20 acres of land, and put a bunch of outside-the-box homes and apartments and charge minimal fees (like maybe 300/month HOA).
You could build homes using: Earthbags, earthship, dome/concrete, containers, etc.
Any home that uses earth also has the huge advantage of it being an awesome insulator. Earthship homes manage to fluctuate between 50/80 regardless of location or climate (winter/summer respectively).
Creative homing I think could be a big solution to the problems if more people team up and build their own rentals on co-op'd land, then rental prices would go down a lot because demand would go down, or landlords would simply go broke because nobody will rent from them.
You can build just as sturdy/sound a home for 10k using earthbags as you can 200k w/ a contractor, albeit there's a lot of hard work, but if you can do it, then you should be allowed to, but zoning laws don't always look favorable on homesteading.
There's a family on youtube who has like 5 homes (1 for each kid, more like little studio apartments as their bedroom), and a big office. All built for <10k each.
Imagine if you could buy 20 acres of land, and put a bunch of outside-the-box homes and apartments and charge minimal fees (like maybe 300/month HOA).
You could build homes using: Earthbags, earthship, dome/concrete, containers, etc.
Any home that uses earth also has the huge advantage of it being an awesome insulator. Earthship homes manage to fluctuate between 50/80 regardless of location or climate (winter/summer respectively).
Creative homing I think could be a big solution to the problems if more people team up and build their own rentals on co-op'd land, then rental prices would go down a lot because demand would go down, or landlords would simply go broke because nobody will rent from them.