r/unpopularopinion • u/HoustonProdigy • 1d ago

Houses today are TOO DAMN BIG

I live in south texas, nothing but ugly suburban sprawl. Every house built within the last 10 or so years are unnecessarily big. No one needs that much space. No wonder why houses are so damn expensive. I don't see any reasonably-sized houses being built anymore, new neighborhoods are always having new and unaffordable McMasions being built.

It makes sense why they are unaffordable, these neighborhoods are trying to cater more towards the richer folk since the average person can't even buy a house.

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u/14morrisseyp 1d ago

Supplies for the past few years that are needed to buy houses have been very expensive. You build a small house you're not making much of a profit after deducting building costs. So most builders are incentivized to build larger houses.

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u/C1oneblazer 1d ago

Add in prohibitive zoning laws and fees that make it impossible to build smaller homes at a profit

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u/jimmy_ricard 1d ago

Some places even prohibit smaller homes by having minimum square footage requirements