The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by jacobolus on Saturday December 02, 2017 @07:42AM (#15831646)

The US doesn't have 500 million out-of-work children of peasant farmers to resettle in cities in the next 2 generations.

My guess is that if we re-zoned the Bay Area and replaced 1/4 of the current single family homes with 3-to-6-story apartment buildings we could cover several decades of regional housing demand and push housing prices down by 50%.

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by baybal2 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @09:55AM (#15832045)

6 storey apartment buildings are too tiny, they need to be 35+ floors tall

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by JumpCrisscross on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:03AM (#15832081)

I live in a 7-story 28-unit Manhattan building. It sits on a plot roughly the size of my parents’ home in Cupertino, which houses 2 (6 around Thanksgiving). I don’t think the Bay Area has a 30x housing shortage.

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by baybal2 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:43AM (#15832680)

You need to build with some reserve in mind

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