"There was living space for thirteen families! In this one house!"
However, I have a problem with zoning house police who restrict building smaller houses, or two smaller houses on one lot while allowing on ginormous house on one lot If it's 50% lot coverage, the house or houses should be any size the owner wants them to be.
Nobody wants them. Nobody wants your stucco crap build in a field 4,000 sq foot godless garbage house.
And on the flip side, nobody wants your Marxist "tiny house" on wheels that can't be parked either.
Interest rates are still low enough for folks to afford more house than they need, and builders are obliging them.
"There was living space for thirteen families! In this one house!"
Really? I watched 3 hours of Tiny Houses on HGTV last weekend(yeah I have no life if its raining and I cannot cut the grass! LOL)
In the immortal words of Barack Obama, “You don’t need that.”
So, after decades of overcrowded Northeasterners bought their mansions, an increase of such in the South is fodder for concern? And noting that most of these have A/C must come as no surprise to anyone living in the South. Maybe Obama represents more of the zeitgeist than we give him credit for, if there’s something wrong with wanting more.
Or it’s just more New York Values.
The return of the “granny flat” is desperately needed.
That one comment right there distills Marixist, collectivist thought. They decry the human animal's desire to improve one's condition. For as long as that desire exists, then collectivist control is not workable.
The desire to live comfortably, to provide for one's family, to want better for your progeny - the Godless Marxists cannot abide it.
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Somehow, I don’t consider the size of other people’s houses to be any of my business. I’m not the one paying for them or paying the property taxes every year.
BS, no one in Middle America can afford or wants to spend outrageous expenses to heat and cool these monstrosities.
I believe in Freedom to decide what size house you want.
If you got the money, buy what type house you want!
What business is it of anyone’s what property people own??
Liberals are just greedy and jealous children. They claim no one should have a large house but the second they can own one they do.
I like large square rooms with lots of windows. Claustrophobia is my middle name.
The Wall Street Journal had an article recently saying that few blacks and Hispanics were taking out super-sized mortgages. I think that’s supposed to be “bad,” but I don’t see why. I have no desire for a huge house (and massive debt), and I have 12 in my family.
The mere sight of an apartment block sickens me. I have to fight the urge to vomit when seeing one of these monstrosities infested with swarming hordes of apartment garbage.
“the median price for sold new single-family homes just hit record a high of $321,100.”
That is low,very low,in many parts of the country.
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To build a house with twice the space only costs about 50% more.
“zoning house police”
The zoning size restrictions have to do with trying to make ad valorum taxation fairly fair.
Ad Valorum taxation probably should be replaced by number of rooms taxation to permit tax fairness and to allow a greater mix of household incomes.
An 11-room McMansion might pay $4,400/year in room based taxation, a five-room starter house $2,000/year in room-based taxation.