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Re:Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' by Retric on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:12PM (#45841694)
The walls of a house are already cheap to build with a low skill barrier etc. Land, foundation, windows, doors, roof, plumbing, appliances, yadda yadda add up, but everyone seems to focus on walls.

If you really want to drive down the cost of housing figure out cheap windows or start convincing people they don’t need nearly as many of them.

Don’t believe me? Compare the cost of a large 2 story prefab shed ~10-20$/sf without amenities like plumbing vs a house of similar size.

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Re:Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' by UltraSane on Thursday November 06, 2025 @07:00PM (#45842103)
This is pretty cheap for windows https://www.menards.com/main/doors-windows-millwork/windows/...
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Re:Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' by Retric on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:03PM (#45842513)
Even that could run you near 2,000$ on a modest new home ignoring the rebate.

But my point was more that price savings are easy to slip into the new construction pipeline for a wide range of homes. Similarly Argon helps r with insulation on day 1, but only lasts ~20 years on a window that may be in use for 100.

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