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People are harder to replace than houses.
by parenthephobia 9y ago
People are harder to replace than houses.
- thedaemon 9y agoThere are more people born each day (400,000 a day) than there are houses built each day (4,657 a day). So I'd say no, houses are harder to replace than people.
- NiceGuy_Ty 9y agoYou can replace a house to the extent that the old residents are happy with the new house. You can't really replace a deceased family member with someone else.
- mdemare 9y agoI'm pretty sure more than 1.7M houses get built every year worldwide.
- mcbits 9y agoIf you count "dwellings" or "housing units" then surely yes. Many/most of those will be apartments and multi-tenant buildings rather than houses per se. And then there are all the "houses" built from salvaged materials in poor countries. Not sure if you'd want to count those. A person living in such a structure would still be considered homeless in many places.
- jwilk 9y agoWhere did you get these numbers?
- octothorp3 9y agoPeople are self replicating, houses are not. Give them sufficient food and time, and there will soon be too many of them. It would be more accurate to say 'People are more emotionally attached to people than houses'.