Wooden houses - if maintained properly - can last very long indeed. The problem nowadays is that we don't maintain stuff. It's sexier to rebuild it (at a much

Wooden houses - if maintained properly - can last very long indeed. The problem nowadays is that we don't maintain stuff. It's sexier to rebuild it (at a much greater expense in resources). I don't see this changing unless we're getting too poor (not just in money, also in resources) to rebuild and have to repair.