Totally agree about these articles. Note that the trends in the sizes of new homes completed are a little misleading, I think, as they reflect boom suburbs, ra

Totally agree about these articles. Note that the trends in the sizes of new homes completed are a little misleading, I think, as they reflect boom suburbs, rather than the occupied stock. Not an expert, but here's an attempt to track the floor area of occupied housing, and it's much closer to flat (US, 20th C): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532357/figure/pone.0134135.g007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532357/figure/...