It may be vacant because it is the wrong scale or type of housing for the area, or it may be more-or-less uninhabitable for various reasons. All this is correctable, at least by rebuilding the lots if remodeling is insufficient. I agree, there is no call for sprawling new tracts when in-filling existing towns is such a better investment,…
It may be vacant because it is the wrong scale or type of housing for the area, or it may be more-or-less uninhabitable for various reasons. All this is correctable, at least by rebuilding the lots if remodeling is insufficient.
I agree, there is no call for sprawling new tracts when in-filling existing towns is such a better investment, from the public perspective. Local zonings and codes in too many places discourage and even effectively prohibit, the patterns of densifying development that would serve them best, *in favor of* sprawl patterns that are more profitable for developers, but set up longer-term liabilities for the jurisdiction.
It may be vacant because it is the wrong scale or type of housing for the area, or it may be more-or-less uninhabitable for various reasons. All this is correctable, at least by rebuilding the lots if remodeling is insufficient.
I agree, there is no call for sprawling new tracts when in-filling existing towns is such a better investment, from the public perspective. Local zonings and codes in too many places discourage and even effectively prohibit, the patterns of densifying development that would serve them best, *in favor of* sprawl patterns that are more profitable for developers, but set up longer-term liabilities for the jurisdiction.