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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)
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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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[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

This looks exactly like what some urbanists have complained about, a lack of "missing middle" housing between apartments and large single family dwellings. Sounds good with me.