[haltcatchfire]

This is the purpose of the mandatory home warranty program however the inefficiencies in that could provide lots of content for another thread.

 

[CBBarnett]

What's the practical solution? City inspectors on-site at every infill site to ensure things are being done properly and the workers have the right qualifications? It's unfeasible.

In a roundabout way a big part of the solution is probably a housing system that's less commodified and with long-run price stability.

A decade or two of reasonably stagnant prices takes away some of the speculative frothiness that creates periods where anything will sell regardless of quality which discourages many builders and buyers from caring about some of these quality details. Force the market to be about build quality rather than just supply shortages.

Put another way, it's not that a junky house with poor build quality is itself the biggest issue, it's that a junky house with poor build quality costs $950,000.

 

[Red Star]

In a roundabout way a big part of the solution is probably a housing system that's less commodified and with long-run price stability.

A decade or two of reasonably stagnant prices takes away some of the speculative frothiness that creates periods where anything will sell regardless of quality which discourages many builders and buyers from caring about some of these quality details. Force the market to be about build quality rather than just supply shortages.

Put another way, it's not that a junky house with poor build quality is itself the biggest issue, it's that a junky house with poor build quality costs $950,000.

This. I wish I could double like a post.

A good way to achieve a stable housing market is for the federal government to not import 3.2 million people within 4 years.

 

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[Alex_YYC]