There’s always the possibility of making smaller houses with higher quality materials.

Or idk, tile? Linoleum?

Is linoleum any better? Also, tile has a substantially worse under-foot feel for certain areas than a hardwood or hardwood-like substance. Too hard and too cold.

"Linoleum is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil (linoxyn), pine resin, ground cork dust, sawdust, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing."

Not sure if there's anything that's been shown to be a problem in there, but it doesn't seem to involve any pthalates.

But yeah, I'd personally just go with a smaller house with hardwood, rather than a larger one made of crap like vinyl planking (and that's what we did, in practice).

Lino is an example of a great technology that we had to "improve" (make cheaper) and replace with godawful plastic.

Funny, because iirc it already had the reputation as the cheap option.

Yeah. Also, drinking straws. straw > plastic > PFAS coated paper

Bamboo is excellent, they can make it look like other types of wood, it’s pretty affordable, and it’s environmentally friendly.

Another option is cork.