Also the appliances in my child home weren't energy inefficient but they were solid. My current fridge is full of cheap (and broken) plastic. My new stove lasted just past a year before a part that cost 1/5 the price of the entire thing broke. You can get appliances with a touchscreen but you can't get one that will last 20 years anymore.
If it wasn't for government safety regulations that 1950's Ford might actually be safer than what would be produced now without them.
Maybe some news source would publish a graph over time of the ratio of house prices to, say, prices of gasoline, ground beef, carrots, a wool blanket, a car, a refrigerator, etc.
We are very short on news that has credible information, gets to causes, presents like STEM field information, etc.