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wrote:
In the 1800s, with nearly zero regulation, anything went, and
everything was built. The free market addressed quality issues as
usual. Generally the good stuff survives, and the bad is almost
entirely erased. The result was the country gradually built up an
increasing stock of quality builds.

Are you forgetting the people who lived at eg 22 Back Blacow Street Preston -
but only because falling income for hand-loom weavers (down by two-thirds) in
the 1830s forced them to move out from the fresh air of Ribchester? Would you
really like to return to non-regulation?
Just because some of the houses that were built at the time - that my
g'g'g'grandfather couldn't afford to live in anyway - have survived OK doesn't
mean that there was anything good about non-regulation.

If you have any doubt I could give you a detailed description of life in a
non-regulation house.

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