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Except that houses last much longer and there won‘t be an newer more attractive version 5 years later. And in many places the value is the land not the house.
by quonn 3y ago
Except that houses last much longer and there won‘t be an newer more attractive version 5 years later. And in many places the value is the land not the house.
- davidw 3y agoI would agree that treating the taxation of land differently than that of housing would be a sensible idea. Newer housing is quite often much nicer than older housing, truth be told. More energy efficient, for instance.
- rpmisms 3y ago> Newer housing is quite often much nicer than older housing I would disagree very strongly. Stronger building codes and rising material costs have made everything look very samey. I really wish people would/could build more houses that were interesting.
- davidw 3y agoYou're discussing aesthetics, not the actual quality of the housing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/stop-fetishizing-old-homes-new-construction-nice/621012/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/stop-fetis...
- rpmisms 3y agoAnecdotally, housing quality has gone way down, but that's probably due to quality of labor.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Newer housing is quite often much nicer than older housing, truth be told. I haven't seen this in the real world. Newer housing tends to be of much lower quality than older housing, even when we're talking about high-end housing.
- davidw 3y agoPerhaps we agree in terms of aesthetics, but that's in the eye of the beholder. In terms of the quality of the actual build, see the article below. Newer is generally much better in terms of energy efficiency and other metrics.
- bombcar 3y agoAnyone who says house a hundred years ago were better built is free to buy one and discover all the fun money pits they come with.
- JohnFen 3y agoI've owned two houses now that were older than 100 years, and both of them were the best houses I've had. No money pits that were any worse than the money pits new houses are.
- JohnFen 3y agoI'm specifically ignoring aesthetics here. Newer housing is indeed better in certain ways, but is worse in others. I suppose whether or not it's better overall depends on how much you value those different things.