> Commercially-built, American tract homes are built for lowest labor and lowest material costs. This seems location and builder specific, and not at all gener

> Commercially-built, American tract homes are built for lowest labor and lowest material costs. This seems location and builder specific, and not at all generalizable based on a single anecdote. > In America, it is rare for homes to be ever torn down unless they're extremely damaged by termites, very old and not up to modern codes and not considered a historical site, or a 1-wall demo "remodel" cannot be accomplished. This, too, seems location-specific. In Denver, older houses are being torn down constantly to put up new builds. I’m not clear why you’d think it’s universally true.