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The Great Compression | Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by silence7 to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Approximately 2% of the buildings in the city where I grew up were built before 1922. You can’t expect everyone in a city to be able to fit into 2% of its buildings, even if you convert all the non-residential buildings in that age range into residential buildings. Hardly anybody could be bothered to live out here before air conditioning was available so the whole region is new construction.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

K. Seems you've decided we shouldn't invest into better infrastructure for some reason.