Muzzle Tough
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:53 PM
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They don't have 1/2 acre lots where I live.
The lots here are more like 1/16 acre.
If the people in Boston are legislating minimum lot sizes of 1/2 acre, then no wonder why their houses cost that much.
Where I live, you can buy a house like that on a 1/16 acre lot for about 120K. But that's because we allow higher housing density, so prices are lower.
If Boston allowed the kind of density that we have where I live, then you could build eight houses on that land instead of just one. That would greatly lower the cost per house.
If the people in Boston are so concerned about housing prices, then why don't they allow higher density housing?
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