Zoning restrictions for houses are detrimental to the well-being of low-income households

In the USA the values of the American Dream are still prevalent in the hearts of its inhabitants. When people talk about their future most of the time you will find a consensus amongst the majority: They want to find true love, marry them, have kids together, build their dream home, and buy a Golden Retriever that will grow old with them.

 If everything works out as planned at some point they will find themselves in a pit of helplessness after they come upon the pile of zoning restrictions that are supposed to increase their quality of life whilst planning their house.

 Or, maybe, they will push all the work over to a local land use attorney to go through pages and pages of legal jargon that depicts every part of constructing a building.

 The question one might ask themselves is how someone with a smaller wallet is able to afford everything you need to follow this manual. The answer is simple. They are not.

 Not only is there the burden of taking out a huge loan for their dream home itself, but there are all kinds of extra rules to play by while designing it. Minimum height, length, and width, as well as the thickness of the walls or the type of windows or even the utility of the land are only just the start of a book written by the legislator.

 Most of the low-income families back down after stumbling upon this barrier and have to make sacrifices that mean refraining from their original dream house for their children and their Golden Retriever.

 These families are robbed of their opportunities to live their dream life, which in my opinion is only counterproductive to increasing the quality of life in these cities.

Aaron's Edit:

In the USA [P,Gr - ^,] the values of the American Dream are still prevalent in the hearts of its inhabitants. When people talk about their future[P,Gr - ^,] most of the time you will find a consensus amongst the majority: They want to find true love, marry them, have kids together, build their dream home, and buy a Golden Retriever that will grow old with them. 

If everything works out as planned[P,Gr;foc - ^, they will one day break ground on that  ] at some point they will find themselves in a pit of helplessness after they come upon the pile of zoning restrictions that are supposed to increase their quality of life whilst planning their house.

[St - run back this sentence; no half-paragraphs]Or, maybe, they will push all the work over to a local (land use) [St,P - ^land-use] attorney to go through pages and pages of legal jargon (that depicts) [Gr;W - delineating every part of constructing a building.

The question one might ask themselves is how someone with a smaller wallet is able to afford everything you need to follow this manual. The answer is simple. They are not. 

[St - run back this sentence; in academic writing, if you have three short, closely-related simple sentences, they function more life one sentence, and you want to have more information in a paragraph] Not only is there the burden of taking out a huge loan for their dream home itself, but there are all kinds of extra rules to play by while designing it. Minimum height, length, and width, as well as the thickness of the walls or the type of windows or even the utility of the land are only just the start of a book written by the legislator.

Most of the low-income families back down after stumbling upon this barrier and have to make sacrifices that mean refraining from their original dream house for their children and their Golden Retriever. 

[St - run back this sentence; son single-sentence paragraphs] These families are robbed of their opportunities to live their dream life, which in my opinion is only counterproductive to increasing the quality of life in these cities.


Corrected version:

 In the USA, the values of the American Dream are still prevalent in the hearts of its inhabitants. When people talk about their future, most of the time you will find a consensus: they want to find their true love, get married, have kids together, build their dream home, and buy a Golden Retriever that will grow old with them.

 If everything works out as planned, the couple will one day break ground on that house, and at some point they will find themselves in a pit of helplessness after they come upon the pile of zoning restrictions that are supposed to increase their quality of life whilst planning said house. Or, maybe, they will push all the work over to a local attorney to go through pages and pages of legal jargon delineating every part of constructing a building. The question they might ask themselves is how someone with a smaller wallet could possibly be able to afford everything they need to follow this manual. The answer is simple. They could not.

Not only is there the burden of taking out a huge loan for their dream home itself, but there are all kinds of extra rules to play by while designing it. Minimum height, length, and width, as well as the thickness of the walls or the type of windows or even the utility of the land are only just the start of a book written by the god of legislation. Most of the low-income families back down after stumbling upon this barrier and have to make sacrifices that mean refraining from their original dream house for their children and their Golden Retriever.

These families are robbed of their opportunities to live their dream life, which in my opinion is only counterproductive to increasing the quality of life in these cities.