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The Great Compression - Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

They are doing this in the US currently. The problem here is that corp America has fucked us all so hard that when buying a house you're not just competing with people more well off than you but companies with bottomless pockets.

so you either live far from where you work or have to live up your neighbors ass in one of these type of buildings whose units aren't any more affordable. Not everyone wants that despite your insistence that AmErIcAn FrEeDuMb is to blame.