Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: A strategy for affordability

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Today, thanks to the increased rate of technological advancement
starting during the industrial revolution, the cost to build a shelter
from the elements is lower now than at any other time in recorded
history.  Today, a family could buy a used travel trailer for a few
thousand dollars, and park it in a friend's suburban backyard for
perhaps nothing.

I repeat, the cost of shelter -- shelter with running hot water and
flush toilets no less -- shelter that you own without debt and can
move with you to where jobs are available -- now costs less than a
couple months' work.  Houses are more in reach financially, for more
people, than they ever have been.

If low and moderate income folks are having trouble affording a
house, the problem is NOT the cost of building it.

Brian