Thus said Dave Smith on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:25:35 MDT: > Homes are more expensive today than they were 30 years ago. And yet, > they are made with less quality (by others' and my admittance).
And the reason for this is greedy developers coupled with high demand (or low supply, but that hardly seems the case because I see homes all over the place in land that was previously undeveloped)? Are entrepreneurs in other industries made of a different calibre than developers? Or does the housing industry have a monopoly on the greed+demand factor? > That's my answer. What's yours? Here's the question, restated: If > houses really are more expensive today (even inflation adjusted) than > they were in days past, why isn't the quality higher? Higher than what? To which standard of quality are you referring? They average home they build today is certainly better than the average home from colonial America right? Is it better than the average home in say the 19th century? How about the early 20th century? How about we look at the number of homes actually owned now vs then? I'm of the opinion that generally speaking our standard of living has gone up considerably --- in spite of governmental tampering with the market --- and that includes in the housing industry. If the quality of homes has been going down, what is your frame of reference? Certainly they haven't always gone down in quality. And certainly greed is nothing new. So when did housing quality begin declining? Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 10:18am up 28 min, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.03, 0.95 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
