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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I wonder how much more housing we could build if we weren't allocating the material, labour and land to ~2000 sq. ft. per family.
Building a swath of smaller places (as has been done during previous population booms) could sure get us a lot more supply faster.
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Yeah, that's the funny thing when people bring up housing start numbers from the '70s. Sure, we could probably build at that same rate relative to our population if the average detached house was 1,100 square feet like it was then.