How much of the housing "crisis" is due to increased standards?
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Date: February 8th, 2026 4:33 PM Author: Buy your next house instantly with Zellow!
I'm selling an investment property right now that's an example of this. It's not very nice, got a lot of wear and tear. No LVP flooring, no granite countertops, nothing like that. But it's livable. Four walls, a roof, plumbing works, etc. It's 3,000 square feet, plenty of room for a family. The house is selling for about $200,000, after sitting on the market for months. It's in a small town but it's about 40 minutes from a large city with lots of jobs.
There are tons and tons of houses like this out there. They're not new or nice, but they provide basic shelter. People lived in houses like this for decades. But it seems that many people would rather hold out for a 500k "starter" home that has all latest features rather than have a 1990s standard of living for cheap. Makes me doubt that there's truly a housing crisis.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 12:01 PM
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Date: February 8th, 2026 5:19 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo
i look for these kinds of homes all of the time
they really dont even exist any more
especially at this price point
ur foundation or roof or something must be fucked up or the neighborhood is nigger/spic infested
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Date: February 8th, 2026 5:21 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome
most "problems" in US are caused by increasing expectations, if u look at avg size of US house its gone up and up, ppl expect to live in a McMansion even though they are losers
likewise more ppl get fraud college degrees and think they are entitled to a six figure plus jerb
and its not just the US its like this everywhere now even malaysia, nepal, whatever. ppl basically bitching and acting entitled like they deserve shit just cause society has told them get a faggot degree then u are set and shit, its all absurd crap
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Date: February 8th, 2026 5:58 PM Author: cowgod
I’ve said this in the past w/r/t everything needing to be awesome now, awesome Countertops, Flooring instead of the garbage we used to have, proles in $70k SUVs when UMC dads in John Hughes movies drove modest midsize sedans.
Millennials also got it into their heads that living in flyover made them extremely irredeemably Losery, so coasts got more crowded than ever and Cleveland has thousands of Hectares of cheap housing, perhaps some of which with Linoleum flooring. And sure, No Jobs supposedly, but we have the republican caucus to blame for that.
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Date: February 8th, 2026 9:33 PM Author: @grok, is this true?
Regulations and zoning - but most regulations are because someone died once. So it's a trade off.
Edit: lol, I assumed your OP wouldn't be retarded.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 11:36 AM
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The schools were terrible academically back then too. Just now they're browner and blacker. Kids are more likely to get shot up going to a white school though.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 10:11 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
OP is very much hitting on something. asshole flippers are driving up the price of housing by doing these lipstick on a pig renos. they're pricing out normal people who could buy a shitty house and fix it up over time. and there are tons of idiots who will pay for the lipstick on a pig renos and/or have no choice bc that's all that's available.
the solution is to heavily disincentivize purchasing a home that isnt a primary residence.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
rates, property taxes and insurance are basically the same if youre owner occupied or renting it out.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 11:45 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
i live in are country. tons of prole goy messrs fix it.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 11:39 AM
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It's not just housing. Everyone's expectations for what a middle class life should be are inflated because of social media and lifestyle creep. Most middle class people in the 70s and 80s lived in houses with 1200 sq ft, kids shared bedrooms, and everyone used the same bathroom. They ate frozen dinners and SPAM, and going out to dinner was a rare treat. Now everyone drives a massive SUV, orders doordash several times a week and expects cheap 3000 sq ft houses where everyone has their own private bedroom and bathroom and located right outside of a major metro. It's ridiculous.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 12:10 PM Author: ...,....,,........
It's called not living in a cramped shitbox.
Of course the houses are bigger, because people want to spend more time at home, having friends over, throwing birthday parties, chilling in a basement, and just enjoying their lives at home instead of having to go out and find some form of entertainment.
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Date: February 9th, 2026 12:43 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,......,;:.,.:..:.,:,::,.
My point is that people should expect to pay more for these luxuries and not complain about how prices are increasing
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Date: February 9th, 2026 6:54 PM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad
I've come to hate the word nuanced, which is overused these days, but it is applicable here. People are paying $1M for tiny 3-bed shitshacks in southern California. You cannot touch a decent SFH in any decent school district for under $1M in SoCal or the Bay area. Even on the east coast, people are paying $1M for shitty splits and 1980s colonials in the DC or Boston or NY suburbs as long as they get decent schools. Location triumphs housing quality.
Housing is expensive because:
1. Decline of buildable lands close in. The age of mass subdivisions is over for many cities. There are exceptions like Texas and Florida, where they keep building new subdivisions after subdivisions (and are more prone to boom-bust cycles).
2. Population increases in all metro areas.
3. The economies of scale means it's more profitable for builders to squeeze bigger new houses on shrinking availability of land. Building starter homes makes no economic sense to the builders.
4. Demographic changes and social engineering like Move to Opportunity have seen many suburban school districts go from nicely decent to mediocre and people are chasing fewer and fewer good school districts, particularly close in.
Close in areas with hyperlocal good school districts are very expensive and shitshacks get multiple offers.
Blaming everything on inflated expectations for waterfall countertops and fake marble is a red herring.
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