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Have people's standards for what a house constitutes gone up, or are affordable options that people would be very willing to buy less available now?
by dumberquestions 2mo ago
Have people's standards for what a house constitutes gone up, or are affordable options that people would be very willing to buy less available now?
- WalterBright 2mo agoHouses are much bigger today.
- smallmancontrov 2mo agoBecause of complete NIMBY victory, not because the youth are greedy. YIMBY is the way.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoMaybe partly. But developers make more money building the biggest houses they can sell. So that's what they build.
- smallmancontrov 2mo agoTrue, YIMBY can only do so much. The market serves wealth-weighted people not people-weighted people, so when inequality cooks to the point that the whims of the wealthy outweigh the needs of the poor, the latter gets the boot when the two are in conflict.
- janalsncm 2mo agoProbably both. Due to zoning in almost all American cities it is now illegal to build houses that are as small as in the post war period.