Sorry but the main cost of building in California is the regulations. When the cost of the “permits” will make you pay for the building twice, once for the permits then to actually build it. These regulation methodologies are spreading all over the country, basically taxation by permitting.
The fact she did not address that at all, makes me question her political belief. I think she's an elitist wealthy lefty. Or, she might be avoiding regulation since that since it does not jive with the program she's trying to sell. In which case, she may be a greedy capitalist. 🤣
As a contractor in the housing industry for 30+ years, I suggest that you are only partially correct. Although better communications lines are a good start, the prohibitive cost to build is driven by the prohibitive and fiticious cost of land. Make the lots in a developed neighborhood condominiumized allowing government to carry the costs of the infrastructure while collecting 'interest only' on the cost of development. The home owner owns the constructed home and the government gets paid out on re0sale of the property for market value. I have done this and it cuts the cost of the home by 2/3.
You lost me with your statement of the problem. The cost of a home includes the cost to build plus the cost of the land. The cost of the land is neither fictitious nor generally relevant to the cost to build on it (although I once had a garage torn down and rebuilt in a very expensive neighborhood and many contractors were clearly quoting me extra because the land was quite expensive). Your solution is simply opaque to me. I cannot figure out what you are trying to propose.
@@nunyabidness3075 lf the land is 'crown' land or government owned it has no real value. When it has systems (roads, water, sewer, elect) that costs $$$ the real value ( not market value) is just that. The carrying cost for the real value are all that is charged. Government still owns the land, charges based on infrastructure and the people own whatever structure gets built. Not everything has a dollar value. I'll talk American next time.
@@scotthowell7676 It’s true not everything has a value you can quantify in dollars, but that doesn’t mean there’s land without real value. I suggest you don’t try that sophistry on any Ukrainians. 😉
I worked a construction job once … one thing I did was pile up the off-cuts, use later … rather than automatically throw everything in the bin. I estimated I was easily able to prevent wastage worth as much as they paid me. (while also doing everything else I was paid to do.) Disorganized BS is waaaay too normal in construction. 😢 meanwhile, we had a guy on the crew that took all day long to do an hours worth of work. There may a shortage of ppl in trades, but hiring random jerks and paying them just to show up, doesn’t necessarily increase the amount of construction work done. Work smarter, not harder. 💜 Yes please, give us more tech, so we can get more work done with fewer people!!
@@erict.35 … mostly “cement fibre board” like HardiPlank siding, for that job, … but same for any decent lumber, like 2x8s. Some construction folks act like, “I need a 68 & 3/8ths inch length!” grab fresh board, make the cut, then throw away whatever is left. 🤦♀️ … we end up needing small bits later, but they grab a fresh board to make a 17 & 3/4 inch cut. 😳 - watch a whole 8+ crew doing that, it adds up fast! 😡
if you figure the Foreman, plus 8 crew, and I was hired as “extra” … the crew WANT to nail board to walls, they HATE using the saw. So I was hired to cut for all of them, but not actually do any “nailing things to walls.” We went from 8 crew *each* wasting at least 10 board-ft per day, per person, to myself scrapping less than 6 ft / per day total. AND the crew got to spend more time nailing things, without having to stop to make cuts, so whole crew moved FASTER! 🥰 - which is *great* for anyone getting paid based on how much they get done, (rather than per-hour wage) … that’s why they waste materials, btw. 🤨 if they spend any time *thinking*, they don’t get paid for it.
@@xanatax1844 so, the problem is cheap materials, which leads to unnecessary waste. The government should increase the price of everything, starting with the fossil energy. Nothing but costs will force them to get their act together.
I’ll bet anyone $10,000 USD that every modern building is built wrong, not a little wrong, FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG. That what architects, engineers and especially building energy designers are trying to accomplish, is what’s wrong!!! Here we have a bright, engaged and highly developed reformer who seeks to improve the building industry, yet has no idea about what should be built. Yes, she will be able to reduce costs, improve productivity and supply chain logistics, but at the end of the day, the building that she helps produce will only compound the problems that building’s contribute to the systemic socioeconomic decline that they afford to the people who have to live with the byproducts of their ignorance! How about interviewing a guest that will address the 40% of global energy consumption that buildings now consume, the 40-billion work-hrs that results from their designed obsolesce, the 300-Billion tons of CO2 they have already put in the atmosphere and the 9-billion new tons they offer up each year??? While I applaud the topic, buildings are the most inefficient large-scale system we can fix, but putting a Lordy educated activist in charge of the endeavor is the surest path to failure I can imagine:-(
Sorry but the main cost of building in California is the regulations. When the cost of the “permits” will make you pay for the building twice, once for the permits then to actually build it. These regulation methodologies are spreading all over the country, basically taxation by permitting.
"Regulatory costs". But yes, regulations are out of control in general.
We agree that over-regulation is a huge problem! Joe's policy think tank does a lot of work on this front: ciceroinstitute.org/issues/housing/
the slowest part of building today is unnecessary government regulations! How can you address that area!?
The fact she did not address that at all, makes me question her political belief. I think she's an elitist wealthy lefty. Or, she might be avoiding regulation since that since it does not jive with the program she's trying to sell. In which case, she may be a greedy capitalist. 🤣
Agreed! Joe's policy think tank does a lot of work on this front: ciceroinstitute.org/issues/housing/
As a contractor in the housing industry for 30+ years, I suggest that you are only partially correct.
Although better communications lines are a good start, the prohibitive cost to build is driven by the prohibitive and fiticious cost of land.
Make the lots in a developed neighborhood condominiumized allowing government to carry the costs of the infrastructure while collecting 'interest only' on the cost of development. The home owner owns the constructed home and the government gets paid out on re0sale of the property for market value.
I have done this and it cuts the cost of the home by 2/3.
You lost me with your statement of the problem. The cost of a home includes the cost to build plus the cost of the land. The cost of the land is neither fictitious nor generally relevant to the cost to build on it (although I once had a garage torn down and rebuilt in a very expensive neighborhood and many contractors were clearly quoting me extra because the land was quite expensive).
Your solution is simply opaque to me. I cannot figure out what you are trying to propose.
@@nunyabidness3075 lf the land is 'crown' land or government owned it has no real value. When it has systems (roads, water, sewer, elect) that costs $$$ the real value ( not market value) is just that.
The carrying cost for the real value are all that is charged. Government still owns the land, charges based on infrastructure and the people own whatever structure gets built.
Not everything has a dollar value.
I'll talk American next time.
@@scotthowell7676 It’s true not everything has a value you can quantify in dollars, but that doesn’t mean there’s land without real value. I suggest you don’t try that sophistry on any Ukrainians. 😉
I worked a construction job once … one thing I did was pile up the off-cuts, use later … rather than automatically throw everything in the bin. I estimated I was easily able to prevent wastage worth as much as they paid me. (while also doing everything else I was paid to do.) Disorganized BS is waaaay too normal in construction.
😢 meanwhile, we had a guy on the crew that took all day long to do an hours worth of work.
There may a shortage of ppl in trades, but hiring random jerks and paying them just to show up, doesn’t necessarily increase the amount of construction work done. Work smarter, not harder. 💜 Yes please, give us more tech, so we can get more work done with fewer people!!
Off-cuts of what?
@@erict.35 … mostly “cement fibre board” like HardiPlank siding, for that job, … but same for any decent lumber, like 2x8s. Some construction folks act like, “I need a 68 & 3/8ths inch length!” grab fresh board, make the cut, then throw away whatever is left. 🤦♀️
… we end up needing small bits later, but they grab a fresh board to make a 17 & 3/4 inch cut. 😳 - watch a whole 8+ crew doing that, it adds up fast! 😡
if you figure the Foreman, plus 8 crew, and I was hired as “extra” … the crew WANT to nail board to walls, they HATE using the saw. So I was hired to cut for all of them, but not actually do any “nailing things to walls.” We went from 8 crew *each* wasting at least 10 board-ft per day, per person, to myself scrapping less than 6 ft / per day total. AND the crew got to spend more time nailing things, without having to stop to make cuts, so whole crew moved FASTER! 🥰 - which is *great* for anyone getting paid based on how much they get done, (rather than per-hour wage) … that’s why they waste materials, btw. 🤨 if they spend any time *thinking*, they don’t get paid for it.
@@xanatax1844 so, the problem is cheap materials, which leads to unnecessary waste. The government should increase the price of everything, starting with the fossil energy. Nothing but costs will force them to get their act together.
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This is great. Young kids are telling us that our fathers are the enemy because they are WOKE.
Is the network infrastructure in place to support that service?
I’ll bet anyone $10,000 USD that every modern building is built wrong, not a little wrong, FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG. That what architects, engineers and especially building energy designers are trying to accomplish, is what’s wrong!!!
Here we have a bright, engaged and highly developed reformer who seeks to improve the building industry, yet has no idea about what should be built. Yes, she will be able to reduce costs, improve productivity and supply chain logistics, but at the end of the day, the building that she helps produce will only compound the problems that building’s contribute to the systemic socioeconomic decline that they afford to the people who have to live with the byproducts of their ignorance!
How about interviewing a guest that will address the 40% of global energy consumption that buildings now consume, the 40-billion work-hrs that results from their designed obsolesce, the 300-Billion tons of CO2 they have already put in the atmosphere and the 9-billion new tons they offer up each year???
While I applaud the topic, buildings are the most inefficient large-scale system we can fix, but putting a Lordy educated activist in charge of the endeavor is the surest path to failure I can imagine:-(
Exoskeletons for houses in wind zones, heavy snow removal from frame, floating emergency foundations with generator assistance.
Straight, level, plumb, square
Another do-nothing hand waver
🤔 Maria is the opposite of that..
We need a 99% wealth tax on all billionaires to be used as Reparations for the victims of Illegal Immigration.