The houses from the 50s that survived were those which were built better and/or more expensive in the 1950s
The rest fell apart or were knocked down
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grue@lemmy.world 11 hours agoThe kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.
First of all, yes they do. They’re just mostly condos instead of single-family detached houses.
Second, even houses literally built in the '50s that still exist are expensive these days.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
A 1950 single family house was 1000 square foot AND it had 3 or more bedrooms (I’ve seen up to 5). A 1000 square foot condo built today is 1 bedroom, not at all built for a family.
The difference? Basements don’t count toward square footage.
As for cost on existing old homes, they’re expensive today because there are so few of them and they’re in demand. That proves my point.
US population in 1950 was 151 million. Today it’s 342 million. Yet if you look at the data, housing construction has been flat since 1968.