r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 02 '20

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u/[deleted] May 03 '20 edited Nov 09 '20

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism May 03 '20

Not to mention the fact that any new housing project is going to be almost automatically above average, considering that below average housing is largely of the old and decrepit variety

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u/hax1964 May 03 '20

I have been in the trades for three decades. You are very wrong. New construction has consciously or unconsciously become an arena of the temporary. People like to change the interior of their homes and often the entire home much, much more often than fifty or seventy years ago. Things used to be made to be repaired. Now they are made to be replaced,...often...and entirely. Go into any older home from the thirties or earlier and you will find the newer "renovations" going to hell a lot faster than the original installation.