Moving companies already make the friction of moving from one location to another pretty low. I feel like having to move an entire house would make this far more complicated, and raise the cost by at least 1-2 orders of magnitude, even if the house was designed to do that.
However, the biggest issues with this proposal is that for the houses to not look like jawa sand crawlers, the city would have to provide some sort of static infrastructure. This could anything from plumbing, concrete foundations, roads, electricity, or even just a piece of paper that says you are allowed to park there. In all cases, you haven’t actually gotten rid of the problem. The thing that becomes exorbitantly expensive and extracts rent from you now is just a plot of land now instead of a house.
Also note that this is literally the business model of a trailer park. Understanding why everyone except the poorest people prefer homes or apartments to those would probably be enlightening.
Moving companies already make the friction of moving from one location to another pretty low. I feel like having to move an entire house would make this far more complicated, and raise the cost by at least 1-2 orders of magnitude, even if the house was designed to do that.
However, the biggest issues with this proposal is that for the houses to not look like jawa sand crawlers, the city would have to provide some sort of static infrastructure. This could anything from plumbing, concrete foundations, roads, electricity, or even just a piece of paper that says you are allowed to park there. In all cases, you haven’t actually gotten rid of the problem. The thing that becomes exorbitantly expensive and extracts rent from you now is just a plot of land now instead of a house.
Also note that this is literally the business model of a trailer park. Understanding why everyone except the poorest people prefer homes or apartments to those would probably be enlightening.