In Citylab, Richard Florida looks at the increasingly bloated American dream, at how once again the average size of the single family suburban home is on the rise. He uses data munched by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank that positively gushes at the good news, seeing it as a sign a new morning in America. Their bottom line.
We hear all the time about stagnating household incomes, the decline of the middle class, rising income inequality, and lots of other stories of gloom and doom for Americans. But when it comes to the new homes that Americans are buying and living in, we see a much brighter picture of life in the US. The new homes that today’s generations are buying are larger by 1,000 square feet compared to the average new homes our parents might have purchased in 1973, and are almost double in living size today adjusted for household size compared to 40 years ago.
via Houses keep getting bigger, but the number to watch is the area per person in it : TreeHugger.
