Turner is just a terrible spokesperson for this idea. The best practices document he references is mostly fine, but people are interpreting his comments here as being about safety regulations because he doesn't seem to understand the policy ideas well enough to sell them www.hud.gov/sites/defaul...
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HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "The number one thing I hear that's crippling our housing development is regulations, so we've been very intentional about tearing down the regulatory environment. If you take that away, it brings down the cost of a house."
