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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Building Height Codes - Why Aren't They Organizing Politically?

I'm curious why developers don't have any sort of lobbying or political influence to be able to collect the billions of dollars of deadweight that are created by these codes. I feel like this sort of mechanism by where places get wealthier and eat more housing kind of also creates its own opposition to something percent which is skyscraper height. Why aren't they able to organize politically in a way that gets rid of these uh regulations that are helping no one? That's a really interesting question  in general the strongest of construction lobbying group I'm aware of is probably the national association of home builders.

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