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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)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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These remind me of the post-1906 earthquake shacks. Better built attached housing would likely let people live better at a similar, if they could manage to agree on reasonable rules about living just a bit closer.

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[–] pup_atlas@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Townhouses are everywhere on the mid-east coast.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

And here in the west.

The problem is that they're often in groups, away from the city center, and nowhere close to transit. So we need even more roads to get everyone with their cars where they need to go.

What we need is mixed zoning with transit in mind.