What will happen to all the McMansions in the 1T?

[Kinser79]

(05-21-2019, 08:22 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Single family homes have been a prominent part of the American Dream.  It is simply assumed that everybody aspires to that life style.

An "American Dream" that only started with the GI parents of the Boomers and will likely die with the Boomers.  Prior to that the American Dream was land to farm which often had a single family dwelling on it (particularly in the North, not so much in the South--as plantation economics really requires a village to pull off).  That American Dream died in the 1890s with the closure of the frontier.  Between the Missionaries and the GIs being parents the American Dream was to have an industrial job in a city.  Cities do not lend themselves to single family housing very well being far more dense.

The emerging American Dream may well include a return to urban mixed use zoning and the abandonment of highly inefficient single family housing tracts in suburbia, which was born out of specific economic and political situations and cannot and will not exist without them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieg9j7dZ8q4

Normally I'd embed the video but it is some 75 minutes long.