It's always hilarious to me to see cities doing damn near everything they can to limit new house, condo or apartment construction. Because those same cities will then turn around and wonder why housing is so expensive. Shit like rent controls, for example. I mean, that shit is economics 101.
I'm not advocating a tear down. You will find 100+ year old cuts of wood in some of those homes that can't really be done anymore.
Welcome to my home. 2 Family Colonial, generic as fuck converted into a 1 Family. Ancient cuts of wood EVERYWHERE. I do wonder if the wood is higher quality then what houses are built with now.
I don't think that really matters, what kind of houses have problems because the wood fails? Minus termites. But those old piece of shit houses have major plumbing, foundation, electrical, and drainage/storage/layout problems. I'd much rather pay a little extra to get steel framing if you are that worried about structure strength than live in some victorian fucking money pit.
Supposedly its ironically a fire hazard because the fire dept can't tell how involved the fire is since the structure won't be compromised, whereas with a wood structure the thing will actually collapse when compromised giving the fire dept a good idea of whats going on. Or so I read somewhere. You can get it done in steel, it's actually not that much more expensive.
