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Kenny Easwaran's avatar

Fascinating to learn of the history!

It’s also interesting to see in that graph that there was a second peak in the 1990s, not as high as the early 70s peak. But the two peaks had a different relationship between single family and multifamily homes, which might explain different factors leading to those peaks. It’s too bad that graph doesn’t go back to some of the earlier periods mentioned in the article, but it’s probably harder to get standardized information for those periods.

I noticed a couple typos in one of the last paragraphs (it says that 40 states had adopted 119.1 by 1945 even though it just said 119.1 was developed in the 1960s, and it says 2x2s were used instead of 2x2s).

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skybrian's avatar

At some point it would be interesting to compare with Japan, where I've read that houses are culturally assumed to be more temporary. How does that affect how they're built?

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