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

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.

    • delirious_owl
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      9 months ago

      Yes, it should be at least a foot of concrete. Or, more environmentally friendly, a foot of compressed earth.

      But lots of places just do wood stick frame and that’s fucking terrible between two different units.