U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income

Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by mlac on Saturday October 30, 2021 @08:32AM (#29048280)

The average person does not want a tiny house or van life. So it’s not a well developed structure built for “the average person”.

Tiny homes are the mobile home of this generation, except less widely adopted. But they will depreciate, widening the gap between those who chose to purchase a traditional house and those who chose a simpler approach.

Van life and tiny homes are not suitable for 99.99% of families with children.

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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by Spivak on Saturday October 30, 2021 @03:26PM (#29051593)

You're dis-agreeing with the parent. The problem is that for almost everyone houses are unaffordable without mortgages and the only alternatives to it -- smaller homes, mobile homes, vandwelling are bad. But they're bad not because of something fundamental but because we make it artificially harder for them.

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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by mlac on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:12AM (#29093109)

Thank you! That’s not how I interpreted that original post, but

It’s not that small houses are bad. Small houses (as I’d define it 1000-1750 sq ft for a 3 bedroom) are great.

But I still see it written as “if those structures were removed” that those alternatives are a suitable alternative to a stick-built house for the majority of people. I think they are all sub-optimal solutions that people should not be forced into unless they want to.

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