I know at least Florida recently made it legally required to have some sort of metal supports put onto the trusses of roofs that make them pretty impossible to just "rip off" like they used to.
Problem usually is though, if the weather is strong enough to do serious damage, very little can truly prevent it. You can prevent the damage from regular storms, like Louisiana building all its homes about 6 feet up or more. But the major ones will take a hit one way or another.
And unfortunately that means for most people the idea is "build cheap and replace cheap." Even the McMansions are a fraction of what you'd think they cost a lot of the time.
You'll have to trust me when I say "I know" on that. It kills me that building a decent new house is gonna be around $150,000 at cheapest, and then instead of building a more expensive house, the builders will cheap out by building a $150,000 house and selling it at $500,000.
I just want to see more homes in America that can last 200 years.
Well a handful of the houses I grew up in as a kid lasted 100 years before a random storm decided "no" and ended that. Solid buildings that managed just fine until something beyond survivable hit them.
At some point, the might of nature is beyond human ability to withstand without making it unlivable every other day of the year.
There is, but anywhere that gets regular tornadoes or hurricanes is 90% of the time the poorest and lowest cost of living places in America. As in, what regulations will you make that don't just end up making the barrier to building or buying just raise right out from under the people who live there's ability to afford.
Because that's how any regulation or idea will end up. State/Federal Government forcing a market into existence that knows it has you by the balls, which in turn increases the price well beyond reasonable.
You gotta go back a lot further into the economy and American wages before you can start on the path of improving our housing quality.
I know at least Florida recently made it legally required to have some sort of metal supports put onto the trusses of roofs that make them pretty impossible to just "rip off" like they used to.
Problem usually is though, if the weather is strong enough to do serious damage, very little can truly prevent it. You can prevent the damage from regular storms, like Louisiana building all its homes about 6 feet up or more. But the major ones will take a hit one way or another.
And unfortunately that means for most people the idea is "build cheap and replace cheap." Even the McMansions are a fraction of what you'd think they cost a lot of the time.
You'll have to trust me when I say "I know" on that. It kills me that building a decent new house is gonna be around $150,000 at cheapest, and then instead of building a more expensive house, the builders will cheap out by building a $150,000 house and selling it at $500,000.
I just want to see more homes in America that can last 200 years.
Well a handful of the houses I grew up in as a kid lasted 100 years before a random storm decided "no" and ended that. Solid buildings that managed just fine until something beyond survivable hit them.
At some point, the might of nature is beyond human ability to withstand without making it unlivable every other day of the year.
Sure, but I feel there's a line somewhere. Nothing's gonna get past a Cat 5 tornado. But also, I want it to survive a Cat 2.
There is, but anywhere that gets regular tornadoes or hurricanes is 90% of the time the poorest and lowest cost of living places in America. As in, what regulations will you make that don't just end up making the barrier to building or buying just raise right out from under the people who live there's ability to afford.
Because that's how any regulation or idea will end up. State/Federal Government forcing a market into existence that knows it has you by the balls, which in turn increases the price well beyond reasonable.
You gotta go back a lot further into the economy and American wages before you can start on the path of improving our housing quality.