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• harryh 12y ago
  She doesn't say that it's for equivalent sized housing. As I said square footage per person has increased DRAMATICALLY over the past 50 years.
  • foobarqux 12y ago
    She uses # rooms as equivalent, not sq-foot. Maybe sq-footage has increased, but your data is about new housing across all economic classes and we are interested in median middle class housing. Besides the problem of data skew (richer people live in bigger houses), Warren claims that most of the middle class live in old homes, not new ones. She specifically says that new homes are being built for upper middle class and above.
    • harryh 12y ago
      The chart I linked to way above was for median housing.
      • foobarqux 12y ago
        It was median new housing developments. Not the housing of a median family, nor the housing of a median middle class family. Again, Warren's claim is that median middle class families live in old homes. And even if they didn't median middle class homes are potentially smaller than median homes.