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I can only assume that by “dream collection” they are talking about the act of collecting your hopes and dreams to smash them up and turn them into shareholder value

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

What if we built combloc sadness housing, but we spread all the blocks around like Legos on the floors of god's living room so they had none of the advantages of apartment blocks and also made them cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also isolated them in the burbs.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why not apartments/terraces? Seems stupid to have them detached at that point.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because in an apartment you’d never get to wake up to views like this 😍🥰

[–] context@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not to mention the freedom to grill in your very own 30 sq ft back yard

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget all that awesome yard maintenance so you don't piss off the HOA.

[–] context@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

i mean 10 minutes a week with a pair of scissors looks like it'll suffice

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

I see that the designers were inspired by the Japanese internment camps

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

If you told me this was the back side of an outdoor display park for sheds, I wouldn't even question it.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Possibly due to insane regulations that make it impossible to build apartments... but easy to build single family detached homes.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lots of wasted space here, I bet you could have minimized on cost and maximized on ROI by just building a couple of multifamily buildings instead. I would have thought there might be zoning issues causing these structures to be built, but after a few minutes of research, that area has "no zoning" and thus has no specific regulations it needs to abide by. What a weird "choice" to make here. You have to sell the American Fantasy of "homeownership" at any cost, right?

Trying to sell people this:

when it's actually this:

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just want to say I appreciate the effor that went into the photoshop here for a one off

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

haha thanks, I needed to kill time at work today.

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Don't understand why it seems like american developers don't want to build rowhousing

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they look like two story shotgun houses.

amazing how far we've come to build less sturdy versions of substandard worker housing from the Deep South 100-150 years ago.

reminds of the ironic brag "We are tomorrow's people."

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Watching the shotgun house get gentrified right in front of me, in my own city, has been crazy to watch. Ridiculous what people will pay for

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

The American Dream is to draw a line in the dirt and glare at your neighbors from behind it.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I wish I knew what that meant

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Groverhouse is a memed-upon house by a guy who chronicled his house building online. The guy who built it knew enough how to erect a house in the first place, but had no sense about a house SHOULD br built, so it came out looking like a mess and with genuine problems, like electrical not being up to code, weird foundation exposures, etc.

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[–] BigLenin@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay those houses look like shit, but I will point out that the ground being all torn up and piles of construction debris being everywhere is pretty normal for mid-development complexes.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Clearing the waste and doing landscaping will transform it from a mid-development complex to a mid development complex.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Tbf "nightmare" is also a type of dream.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It reminds me of the housing in The Jungle, but it's missing the raw sewage river.

Edit: https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/texas/san-antonio/converse/flora-meadows/dream-collection/felton/walkthrough

One of the plans at $147k / 850ft^2 / 259m^2. It's comparable to the $50k tiny houses sold on Amazon.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's currently missing the raw sewage river. Give it 10 years

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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To be fair, these at least have water power and at least some insulation. Those Amazon tiny homes are basically sheds with PVC pipes sticking out of them.

That being said, they're still being sold at like a 10x markup

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

147k doesnt seem worth it for that small to me. in the same area you can buy shit for like 150 and get 2k sqr feet and 4 beds

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

for the love of god i beg you just paint it anything other than grey

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How are Amerikans supposed to feel at home in it if it isn't painted like an aircraft carrier?

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[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

USAmerican houses look like such shit

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

uh I thought communism was when grey monotonous constricting living quarters what gives

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[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/ted-cruz-texas-senate-conspiracy-theories/

Although Agenda 21 does not have the force of law, right-wingers believe the treaty’s sustainable-development precepts will force Americans to live in “hobbit homes” and forcibly relocate residents from rural areas into densely populated urban cores. “Agenda 21 sounds like absolute crazy conspiracy theory nut stuff, but it’s not,” explains Glenn Beck. As Cruz puts it on his website:

How could ted-texas do this?

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This the kinda housing you see in a movie, taking place in the USSR, that was critiqued as being "too on the nose" anti-commie propaganda during the red scare

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't think that lands. The common critcism is people being packed into apartment complexes "like sardines" which obviously doesn't apply for this, the mistreated goldfish equivalent of housing

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The american mind cannot comprehend apartment housing

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

communist sardine tin can packaging vs. glorious individualist 8 gold fish bowls next to each other

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

With my god-given 2 square yards of monocultural lawn

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

is it actually cheap for the floorspace tho

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Why are there so few windows and why are they so small? It wouldn't be terrible housing if there was greenery, few cafes and shops around and the whole thing was more lively but that won't fly with American zoning laws.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Some of these don't have garages, which is kinda wild for something that's at the very high end of car dependency.

death to america btw

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Going from the pictures it was constructed in gm_flat so I guess you just leave your car in the endless field surrounding your townhouse with the worse heating bill

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

In a vague way it reminds of the ticky-tacky houses in the song Little Boxes

Little Boxes

A huge difference is that the ticky-tacky houses were bland and generic but nice. Those depressing gray houses look like they belong in Japanese internment camp - to steal a joke from this thread.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why did we stop putting windows in houses? Is the window tax back? Can we get some fucking light going on? Look at the sides of the houses, it's gonna be utterly dismal in there

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No clue if this is why but there's an interesting design aspect to setting up a neighbourhood so everyone's windows don't just look right in at each other, a lot of developers don't give a shit so instead of doing that design they just leave out windows. Easy peasy.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Americans doing the racist Mexico filter irl but for the burbs

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any idea how much they're going for?

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[–] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

the world really is turning into Minecraft, most glaringly with our architecture

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

christ this is bleak. you bulldozed the thornscrub for this? couldn't even make them singlestory?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's good that people are getting a chance to build equity that otherwise wouldn't be. Home ownership is one of the very few reliable avenues for wealth creation in the US. If you don't own your own home you will work until you die. Probably if you do as well, but definitely if you don't.

They definitely look like shit though. I agree w others that duplexes even would make more sense.

[–] context@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the value of real estate is directly related through rents and mortgages to porky's ability to extract surplus value from the working class. it's only a reliable avenue for wealth creation because the system is rigged from the ground up so that most people will be stuck working until they die. building a bunch of cheaply made tiny homes in a massive sprawl won't fundamentally change that.

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