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[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago

My grandma lived in this trailer park for 40 years until she died. Pretty low overhead.

[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

When I lived in germany full time, I would've loved to live in a tiny home, but germany would've rather put me on the street than allow a tiny home lmaoo.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

That's the problem in a lot of the US too. We transitioned from building massive subdivisions of small/cheap homes to smalle subdivisions of larger/more expensive housing. This is due to a mix of zoning that favors single family detached housing, land availability, and consumer tastes.

Homes have drastically grown in size over the past 200 years while the number of people living in them has decreased. Not to mention nicer material, which also contributes to cost. No more "builder grade" cabinets and formica counters these days.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago

Damn, $200 sounds low, on the other hand 30% is a crazy share. I'm targeting 10-15% at most.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Wait what? Your rent is 10-15% of your income? What's that like in absolute numbers?

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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is good, but if we address this at a systemic level, we don't need to put people in tiny low-density homes unconnected to anything for it to be affordable.

China addresses it by looking at how much labor and materials is required and ensuring the price of concrete, steel, glass, etc is sufficiently low for the number of homes they need constructed, and that there is enough of each type of skilled labor that goes into building a home.

Presumably local governments have some mechanism for when they know a house costs X materials and Y labor, and they see new construction costing significantly more than that.

The result is detached homes@avg 75USD/sqft and apartments@55/sqft. With current interest rates of 6.768%, you'd get ~400 sqft homes with a $200/mo 30 year mortgage at those prices, 600sqft if interest rates were 3%.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Why can't other people be more like this? Go Marcel!

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago
[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

He can sit on my side of the table if he keeps this up

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[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 21 points 5 days ago

Rember kids; philanthropy is advantageous upon failure of collective efforts

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

See, we don't need billionaires. The billionaires hoard all the wealth while this millionaire did something good. Tax billionaires out of existence.

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