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A real estate agent told me that the big problem is in the 50's and 60's you could do massive developments in the suburbs. Imagine building the same house 500 t
by tppiotrowski 5y ago
A real estate agent told me that the big problem is in the 50's and 60's you could do massive developments in the suburbs. Imagine building the same house 500 times. You probably get very skilled and efficient at it. Today most developments are limited to just a few houses and a lot of construction is one off for permits and design so there are no economies of scale.
Just anecdotal, but made sense to me why costs are going up and productivity declining.
- mschuster91 5y agoOn the other hand customers don't really like their house looking exactly like the rest of the 'hood. HOAs are bad enough, but even the basic structure of all the houses looking identical? That's an eyesore.
- sgerenser 5y agoI live in a neighborhood where there are about 5 different models of (fairly similar) house copied about 50 times each. I’m pretty sure this is still quite common.