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.
It also doesn't help that my expertise is in hurricanes, which only sometimes involves tornadoes, which are two very different beasts with a whole separate list of prep and problems to fight. Especially as "tornado alley" really isn't a place that has to deal with flooding, which is the only reason why most tornado shelters can even be built to begin with.
Anything that can beat a tornado will probably kill you in a flood, so you can't really set a standard for both.
Also one of the reasons why most of the South is trailer parks is because trailers by definition and default have a baseline flood resistance by simply being 6~ feet off the ground and designed to be moved around a little. Only the richest can afford actual houses, and that's because you have to not only afford the house but the entire acre+ of land to place it on with a literal hill you will have to build it on top of.
The South isn't hurting for space or land, so there isn't a need to build giant apartment complexes that go up, so instead they just spread out in a lot for all the people stuck renting still. Until they can finally afford to put a nice trailer on a plot of land all their own.
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 certainly agree with all that, and that tornadoes do seem to have a fetish for trailer parks.
It also doesn't help that my expertise is in hurricanes, which only sometimes involves tornadoes, which are two very different beasts with a whole separate list of prep and problems to fight. Especially as "tornado alley" really isn't a place that has to deal with flooding, which is the only reason why most tornado shelters can even be built to begin with.
Anything that can beat a tornado will probably kill you in a flood, so you can't really set a standard for both.
Also one of the reasons why most of the South is trailer parks is because trailers by definition and default have a baseline flood resistance by simply being 6~ feet off the ground and designed to be moved around a little. Only the richest can afford actual houses, and that's because you have to not only afford the house but the entire acre+ of land to place it on with a literal hill you will have to build it on top of.
The South isn't hurting for space or land, so there isn't a need to build giant apartment complexes that go up, so instead they just spread out in a lot for all the people stuck renting still. Until they can finally afford to put a nice trailer on a plot of land all their own.