/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1923482
Normal answer:
Most municipalities will not let you build something that the cops can't burn you out of. Simple as.
Poured concrete, concrete slabs, earthen walls... shit, I've seen demos where they ground up old tires and mixed them with epoxy and filled wallforms with it and it's more resilient, more durable, and more energy efficient than wood & insulation.

Conspiracy answer:
The US, as a country, has been financially insolvent almost since its inception. Nixon created the EPA in the early 70s as a department to supposedly protect America's natural resources - forests, wetlands, mountains, deserts, etc.
If you look at a map of EPA protected lands (either directly, or through the National Forest Service/Parks dept., etc., a lot of it is in the middle of bum fuck nowhere. But a lot of it is absolutely prime real estate, too.
Theories have it the the EPA is a guarantor of the USA's last remaining bargaining chip - its untouched natural resources - and that these resources have been leveraged against our national debt since the 70s. Millions of acres of timber. Uncounted tons of coal. Probably veins of precious metals. Countless barrels of oil. And, what will end up as the most precious of all, untapped reservoirs of fresh water.
But all that land has been promised out already. To the French, the British, probably the ragheads and Israel, and definitely to the Chinks. So our leaders started leveraging against developed land as well.
But what good is developed land that can't be "undeveloped" ore "re-developed" into something more aesthetically pleasing to the new owners?
Thus, you can only build "approved" structures on land that "you" "own". Approved, as in readily-destroyable. If your existence can't be erased from the land in a weekend by a team of Chinese repo-men, the land isn't usable as an IOU on our national debt.
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