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I find it sort of odd that they feel that keeping an existing house longer is a bad thing. The house I live in now was built in the 1850's, and I lived for a wh

• Symmetry 8y ago
  It's great to keep old houses but unless the population stops growing you need to build new ones for people to live in. Well, they can keep living with their parents but most people want to move out.
  • Finnucane 8y ago
    Sure, but what the article is suggesting is that older houses should be torn down and replaced, by another single family home. So it doesn't really add to the housing stock to do that.
• WhompingWindows 8y ago
  Isn't the main drawback that there is a lot of maintenance needed on old houses? I worked many hours on a fixer upper built around 1900 by an amateur homebuilder. It's incredibly frustrating that every single change you want to make to windows, doors, or anything is complicated by non-right angles. It increased the time required for basic repairs by 2-fold, so much re-doing needed to get even a mediocre fit, never mind a great fit.
  • munificent 8y ago
    I've lived in houses built in the 40s and 90s. I would take the former any day of the week. I'm not generally a "they don't build them like they used to kind of person", but my experience with houses is that older homes were built to last while newer ones are just built to sell. Of course, there's probably some survivorship bias there. All the shitty homes from the 40s are gone now.
  • Finnucane 8y ago
    There's a lot of maintenance needed on _any_ house.