Wanna know why home builders don't build 1300 square foot starter homes any more?
Code compliance, permit costs and zoning.
Who makes permits expensive, codes expensive to meet, and influences zoning? Older voters, through their city council.
It may be boomers doing it now, but it was Greatest Generation doing it before them, and they put most of these hurdles into place, not boomers.
Cheap houses are still available all across the country, but they are not on the coasts, or in the big cities, where the jobs are. They are in small town USA, where the local economies were all devastated by industry off shoring.
Wanna know why home builders don't build 1300 square foot starter homes any more? Code compliance, permit costs and zoning. Who makes permits expensive, codes expensive to meet, and influences zoning? Older voters, through their city council. It may be boomers doing it now, but it was Greatest Generation doing it before them, and they put most of these hurdles into place, not boomers.
Cheap houses are still available all across the country, but they are not on the coasts, or in the big cities, where the jobs are. They are in small town USA, where the local economies were all devastated by industry off shoring.
But if you get that post office job in the small town its smooth sailing in a cheap house with a fat wife.