• jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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      Electricity and other infrastructure is almost always built by the government on your land.

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    In most of America, the developer is responsible for building or updating the road infrastructure up to federal and state standards.

    Sewer, stormwater, and water infrastructure are usually somewhat shared.

    The municipality will often need to upgrade the upstream or downstream connections but the developer does their end

    Then In the great Ponzi scheme that is America, the municipality takes on the whole thing after it’s built, the developer makes all his money and runs, the suburban single family home layout takes up so much room, the municipality never makes enough taxes to maintain the infrastructure over time.

    So if you build it, they will come

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      not sure if you’re living on earth, but there’s a ridiculous crunch on housing availability.

      Not sure that’s OP’s motivation but yeah.

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        There is plenty of housing. There is not enough affordable housing. And I’m not talking about giant penthouses, I’m talking about ordinary apartments that are rented out for obscene amounts of money (or rather not rented out because nobody can afford them).