This has the issue of always assuming a household will always live in the most space efficient way possible (2 adults in 1 bedroom with no children or others).
Assume you need 2 bedrooms (2 adults and 1 child): A 1,000 sq ft home in the USA is somewhere close to the 10th percentile in terms of size, so going down to 750 sq ft puts you near the absolute smallest 2 bedroom houses available.
SuperSwan@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The first house I lived in after college was 950 sqft. Three bedrooms. No garage. It was also built in the 50’s. It worked for three (and then later four) people splitting rent.
Today developers wouldn’t dare put such a house on the type of lot it was on because it couldn’t be profitable.