- The way to increase construction productivity is to have a long pipeline of small, repetitive projects where crews become efficient by constructing the same building over and over and over. This requires by-right approval and small scopes. The canonical example: Houston townhouses.Feb 4, 2026 22:35
- Every townhouse in Houston is a minor variation on the same basic building, constructed in essentially the same way.
- The way out of our mess isn't perfectly designed 300 unit high-amenity apartment blocks or hand-crafted towers, but hundreds of variations of the same basic building on an 4,000-8,000sf lot, built by crews that have built a dozen already. bsky.app/profile/wool...
- COOKIE CUTTER!!!!!!
- ROW HOUSES
- My place in Houston was a 3 story, 2/2 townhouse over garage built in 1999, and it was a nearly perfect house (even if lots of stairs 😆). I loved it. It also cost (then, and now) about 1/3rd the cost of a comparable house in the Bay Area.
