chapotraphouse

Lots of wasted space here, I bet you could have minimized on cost and maximized on ROI by just building a couple of multifamily buildings instead. I would have thought there might be zoning issues causing these structures to be built, but after a few minutes of research, that area has "no zoning" and thus has no specific regulations it needs to abide by. What a weird "choice" to make here. You have to sell the American Fantasy of "homeownership" at any cost, right?

Trying to sell people this:

when it's actually this:

What if we built combloc sadness housing, but we spread all the blocks around like Legos on the floors of god's living room so they had none of the advantages of apartment blocks and also made them cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also isolated them in the burbs.

they look like two story shotgun houses.

amazing how far we've come to build less sturdy versions of substandard worker housing from the Deep South 100-150 years ago.

reminds of the ironic brag "We are tomorrow's people."

Why not apartments/terraces? Seems stupid to have them detached at that point.

The American Dream is to draw a line in the dirt and glare at your neighbors from behind it.

Tiny Groverhouse

Tbf "nightmare" is also a type of dream.

Okay those houses look like shit, but I will point out that the ground being all torn up and piles of construction debris being everywhere is pretty normal for mid-development complexes.

for the love of god i beg you just paint it anything other than grey

uh I thought communism was when grey monotonous constricting living quarters what gives

USAmerican houses look like such shit

It reminds me of the housing in The Jungle, but it's missing the raw sewage river.

Edit: https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/texas/san-antonio/converse/flora-meadows/dream-collection/felton/walkthrough

One of the plans at $147k / 850ft^2 / 259m^2. It's comparable to the $50k tiny houses sold on Amazon.

Why are there so few windows and why are they so small? It wouldn't be terrible housing if there was greenery, few cafes and shops around and the whole thing was more lively but that won't fly with American zoning laws.

This the kinda housing you see in a movie, taking place in the USSR, that was critiqued as being "too on the nose" anti-commie propaganda during the red scare

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/ted-cruz-texas-senate-conspiracy-theories/

Although Agenda 21 does not have the force of law, right-wingers believe the treaty’s sustainable-development precepts will force Americans to live in “hobbit homes” and forcibly relocate residents from rural areas into densely populated urban cores. “Agenda 21 sounds like absolute crazy conspiracy theory nut stuff, but it’s not,” explains Glenn Beck. As Cruz puts it on his website:

How could do this?

is it actually cheap for the floorspace tho

Some of these don't have garages, which is kinda wild for something that's at the very high end of car dependency.

death to america btw

the world really is turning into Minecraft, most glaringly with our architecture

In a vague way it reminds of the ticky-tacky houses in the song Little Boxes

Little Boxes

A huge difference is that the ticky-tacky houses were bland and generic but nice. Those depressing gray houses look like they belong in Japanese internment camp - to steal a joke from this thread.

Why did we stop putting windows in houses? Is the window tax back? Can we get some fucking light going on? Look at the sides of the houses, it's gonna be utterly dismal in there

Any idea how much they're going for?

christ this is bleak. you bulldozed the thornscrub for this? couldn't even make them singlestory?

Whoever build these has never seen a house. These are the equivalent of that lion in Sweden made by the guy whose never seen a lion.