Interesting Links for 18-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• Number of completed homes in 2011 less than half what is required to meet demand. Can we not just build some? Infrastructure = good.
  (tags: housing uk )
• Comics companies - still making it hard to work out what you should be giving them money for.
  (tags: EpicFail business comics )
• So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again
  (tags: bias belief politics )
• Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
  (tags: emulation consoles nintendo )
• Parents experience greater happiness and meaning in life
  (tags: psychology happiness parents )
• Strange Pictures of Hot Men
  (tags: sexy photographs men )
• Ovulating women perceive sexy cads as good dads
  (tags: hormones menstruation parents perception sex )
• Sacha Baron Cohen was banned from filming at UN for fear of upsetting dictators
  (tags: SachaBaronCohen movies dictators UnitedNations )

Comments

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I’ve been baffled by the apparent market failure around housing over the last ten or twenty years.

I’m putting it down to some mix of underlying infrastructure weakness and where the profit margins sit for housing.

I wonder if the answer is to start building pre-fab high rises like this one

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/chinese-builders-erect-30-story-building-in-15-days-20120115/

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

Why? A present high rise takes a year to build and ten years to get planning permission for. Why spend money optimising the quick bit of the process?