[traloid]

Interesting. So 50 years ago, with labour efficiency and productivity being a small fraction of what it is today, single-family houses were easily built and bought by people.

Today its somehow an unreachable goal that people cant obtain. Why? I dont want to live in a pod or communal flat with 20 people. How are people not revolting over the direction western economies are taking?

[PeterisP]

You can easily get an affordable single-family house - it's just going to be a long, long way from your job because you'll have to drive through all the land taken up by less affordable single-family houses who want to pay extra to live closer to where everybody else is.

[jgwil2]

Because the population has increased over the course of fifty years. There's a limit to how many single-family houses you can build that are reasonably close to jobs.

[swiley]

California has a long way to go before it starts to become attractive.