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I can only assume that by “dream collection” they are talking about the act of collecting your hopes and dreams to smash them up and turn them into shareholder value

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago

Lots of wasted space here, I bet you could have minimized on cost and maximized on ROI by just building a couple of multifamily buildings instead. I would have thought there might be zoning issues causing these structures to be built, but after a few minutes of research, that area has "no zoning" and thus has no specific regulations it needs to abide by. What a weird "choice" to make here. You have to sell the American Fantasy of "homeownership" at any cost, right?

Trying to sell people this:

when it's actually this:

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

I just want to say I appreciate the effor that went into the photoshop here for a one off

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

haha thanks, I needed to kill time at work today.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Don't understand why it seems like american developers don't want to build rowhousing

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago

The American Dream is to draw a line in the dirt and glare at your neighbors from behind it.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago

What if we built combloc sadness housing, but we spread all the blocks around like Legos on the floors of god's living room so they had none of the advantages of apartment blocks and also made them cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also isolated them in the burbs.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago

they look like two story shotgun houses.

amazing how far we've come to build less sturdy versions of substandard worker housing from the Deep South 100-150 years ago.

reminds of the ironic brag "We are tomorrow's people."

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Watching the shotgun house get gentrified right in front of me, in my own city, has been crazy to watch. Ridiculous what people will pay for

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago

Why not apartments/terraces? Seems stupid to have them detached at that point.

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 58 points 2 days ago

Because in an apartment you’d never get to wake up to views like this 😍🥰

[-] context@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

not to mention the freedom to grill in your very own 30 sq ft back yard

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Don't forget all that awesome yard maintenance so you don't piss off the HOA.

[-] context@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

i mean 10 minutes a week with a pair of scissors looks like it'll suffice

[-] gramxi@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

I see that the designers were inspired by the Japanese internment camps

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

If you told me this was the back side of an outdoor display park for sheds, I wouldn't even question it.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Possibly due to insane regulations that make it impossible to build apartments... but easy to build single family detached homes.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Tbf "nightmare" is also a type of dream.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

uh I thought communism was when grey monotonous constricting living quarters what gives

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[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago
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[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

USAmerican houses look like such shit

[-] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Why are there so few windows and why are they so small? It wouldn't be terrible housing if there was greenery, few cafes and shops around and the whole thing was more lively but that won't fly with American zoning laws.

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

for the love of god i beg you just paint it anything other than grey

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

How are Amerikans supposed to feel at home in it if it isn't painted like an aircraft carrier?

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[-] BigLenin@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Okay those houses look like shit, but I will point out that the ground being all torn up and piles of construction debris being everywhere is pretty normal for mid-development complexes.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Clearing the waste and doing landscaping will transform it from a mid-development complex to a mid development complex.

[-] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

the world really is turning into Minecraft, most glaringly with our architecture

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It reminds me of the housing in The Jungle, but it's missing the raw sewage river.

Edit: https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/texas/san-antonio/converse/flora-meadows/dream-collection/felton/walkthrough

One of the plans at $147k / 850ft^2 / 259m^2. It's comparable to the $50k tiny houses sold on Amazon.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

It's currently missing the raw sewage river. Give it 10 years

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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To be fair, these at least have water power and at least some insulation. Those Amazon tiny homes are basically sheds with PVC pipes sticking out of them.

That being said, they're still being sold at like a 10x markup

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[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

This the kinda housing you see in a movie, taking place in the USSR, that was critiqued as being "too on the nose" anti-commie propaganda during the red scare

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Don't think that lands. The common critcism is people being packed into apartment complexes "like sardines" which obviously doesn't apply for this, the mistreated goldfish equivalent of housing

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

The american mind cannot comprehend apartment housing

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

communist sardine tin can packaging vs. glorious individualist 8 gold fish bowls next to each other

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

With my god-given 2 square yards of monocultural lawn

[-] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/ted-cruz-texas-senate-conspiracy-theories/

Although Agenda 21 does not have the force of law, right-wingers believe the treaty’s sustainable-development precepts will force Americans to live in “hobbit homes” and forcibly relocate residents from rural areas into densely populated urban cores. “Agenda 21 sounds like absolute crazy conspiracy theory nut stuff, but it’s not,” explains Glenn Beck. As Cruz puts it on his website:

How could ted-texas do this?

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

is it actually cheap for the floorspace tho

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

In a vague way it reminds of the ticky-tacky houses in the song Little Boxes

Little Boxes

A huge difference is that the ticky-tacky houses were bland and generic but nice. Those depressing gray houses look like they belong in Japanese internment camp - to steal a joke from this thread.

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

a tiny house with the aesthetic of a McMansion. incredible stuff

I'm tempted to call them happy meal houses but nothing about this makes me happy

[-] blunder@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Why did we stop putting windows in houses? Is the window tax back? Can we get some fucking light going on? Look at the sides of the houses, it's gonna be utterly dismal in there

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

No clue if this is why but there's an interesting design aspect to setting up a neighbourhood so everyone's windows don't just look right in at each other, a lot of developers don't give a shit so instead of doing that design they just leave out windows. Easy peasy.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Americans doing the racist Mexico filter irl but for the burbs

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Whoever build these has never seen a house. These are the equivalent of that lion in Sweden made by the guy whose never seen a lion.

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

christ this is bleak. you bulldozed the thornscrub for this? couldn't even make them singlestory?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Some of these don't have garages, which is kinda wild for something that's at the very high end of car dependency.

death to america btw

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Going from the pictures it was constructed in gm_flat so I guess you just leave your car in the endless field surrounding your townhouse with the worse heating bill

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[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Any idea how much they're going for?

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