The Great Compression | Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.
The Great Compression | Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.
Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.
These remind me of the post-1906 earthquake shacks. Better built attached housing would likely let people live better at a similar, if they could manage to agree on reasonable rules about living just a bit closer.
Americans will do anything but build townhouses
Americans will do anything but embrace economic policies that benefit the working class.
Man I would actually consider this over sharing a wall. If you've never had a very loud, persistent neighbor you just don't get it
Townhouses are everywhere on the mid-east coast.
And here in the west.
The problem is that they're often in groups, away from the city center, and nowhere close to transit. So we need even more roads to get everyone with their cars where they need to go.
What we need is mixed zoning with transit in mind.
They exist, buy definitely not as common as makes sense for people
We need denser than that but it would be an improvement.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The shift is a response to conditions that are found in cities across America: Neighborhoods that used to be affordable are being gentrified, while new condominiums and subdivisions mostly target the upper end of the market, endangering the supply of “starter homes” in reach of first-time buyers.
The iconic Cape Cods in Levittown, N.Y. — often considered the model post-World War II suburb — were typically about 750 square feet, roomy for a one-bedroom apartment but small for a free-standing house with two bedrooms.
Driving through the downtown on a snowy afternoon recently, Deborah Flagan, a vice president at Hayden Homes, pointed left and right at storefronts that used to be boarded and are now part of a vibrant ecosystem of retailers that includes numerous high-end coffee shops, a “foot spa” and a bar where people drink craft beer and throw axes at wall-mounted targets.
The upscaling extends well beyond downtown to adjacent neighborhoods, where the small-footprint “mill houses” that once served a blue-collar work force now sit on land that is so valuable they are being slowly erased by two-story moderns with seven-figure sales prices.
Toward the end of the snowy driving tour, Ms. Flagan pointed toward one of those old mill houses — a compact, ranch-style home with fading yellow paint and a white picket fence pocked with broken boards.
Its business model is to deliver middle-income housing that local workers can afford, Ms. Flagan said, and it does this by skipping larger cities like Portland and Seattle in favor of lower-cost exurbs like Redmond (where the company is based).
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Why not a trailer home at this point?
Mostly if you live in one, you own the house but not the land. This means the landlord takes the bulk of the equity instead of the trailer owner
Enough fucking sprawl.
We don't have enough surface for homes, hoarded greenspace lawns, all the roads, plus wild space plus farms plus plus plus...
Build up. Tax the hell out of anything single-family or single-storey.
Tax credits if density builders buy a home adjacent to wild space or farmland, and hold it through its rezoning back to something beneficial so it's removed from the sprawl machine.
This looks exactly like what some urbanists have complained about, a lack of "missing middle" housing between apartments and large single family dwellings. Sounds good with me.
I’m not terribly against this kind of thing, houses are huge
I wish they showed more of the interiors, and you know, those tiny side yards could probably be squished down, or even removed, to build row houses that increase living space and density.
People are latching onto cartoonish shadows of what was.
The lie is getting harder to maintain by the day.
Revolt now or deal with collapse in a few years, because this sick joke won't hold for long.