We've largely zoned them out of existence. I think this is strongly influenced by housing policies post-WW2 that helped create modern suburbs.
In a nutshell, Americans have a mental model of "proper housing" as housing designed for a fairly upper class nuclear family. We had a fairly high percentage of such just after WW2. Since then, our demographics have diversified away from that, but our housing stock has narrowed towards even more of that.
I'm hoping to figure out how to reverse that trend.
In a nutshell, Americans have a mental model of "proper housing" as housing designed for a fairly upper class nuclear family. We had a fairly high percentage of such just after WW2. Since then, our demographics have diversified away from that, but our housing stock has narrowed towards even more of that.
I'm hoping to figure out how to reverse that trend.
https://americanhomeworks.blogspot.com/2019/07/modern-americ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy