Day: December 16, 2010

We see that housing starts dropped by 75% in three years, from two million in the beginning of 2007 to 500,000 at the beginning of ’10.  When we factor in a brand new price increase for adding useless sprinkler systems to each new house, we realize that extra cost will keep more people from building. […]

A few days ago, a Pennsylvania law mandated that all new one and two unit buildings had to have sprinkler systems. In truth, there are very few house fires. In my town of a few hundred, and my township of several thousand, I don’t think there;s been a house fire for over a decade. No […]