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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 9 hours agoThat’s not really relevant.
There are plenty of reasons for houses to be bigger today; things like improved building techniques, better heating.
Also, I doubt the claim. In my area, when a big old one family house gets torn down, it’s usually replaced by a dozen condos. The average size of today’s houses might be skewed by giant mansions
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The main reason houses are bigger today: they’re more profitable. Building bigger houses on smaller land nets developers a big profit.
McMansions is what they’re affectionately known as in the architecture world. They’re not proper mansions (enormous 20 bedroom country estates), but hardly any of those exist anywhere.