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After reading so much about homelessness, and then contemplating how food service in this country evolved -- everybody needs to eat, so the market came up with fast food. Not the most tasty, but generally fast, convenient, and efficient, with an eye to serving as many customers as possible.
If we, the American industry, can rise up and do that for food, SURELY, it must be possible in the same vein to do something similar for the housing market. Pre-fab mini McHouses, drop off two halves somewhere on a tiny lot, connect water/sewer/electric, good to go!
You could have entire suburban developments of these McHouses in rows, maybe not much lawn (they don't have big lawns in Portland, OR, either), but some sort of bus service available, so owning a car wouldn't be necessary, or in the future with FSD cars, if they ever get that far, one EV per block of houses, paid for via the HOA.
It wouldn't be an "ugly" high-rise, it would have HOA contracts, so it wouldn't turn into "the projects".
These essentially would be "starter homes" for younger people, people transitioning from homelessness to housing, etc.
They would retain the sort of feeling of a single-family / single-floor house, just smaller and slightly denser.
Please stick to the topic of discussing the McHouse concept, and try to keep this thread a-political.
If we, the American industry, can rise up and do that for food, SURELY, it must be possible in the same vein to do something similar for the housing market. Pre-fab mini McHouses, drop off two halves somewhere on a tiny lot, connect water/sewer/electric, good to go!
You could have entire suburban developments of these McHouses in rows, maybe not much lawn (they don't have big lawns in Portland, OR, either), but some sort of bus service available, so owning a car wouldn't be necessary, or in the future with FSD cars, if they ever get that far, one EV per block of houses, paid for via the HOA.
It wouldn't be an "ugly" high-rise, it would have HOA contracts, so it wouldn't turn into "the projects".
These essentially would be "starter homes" for younger people, people transitioning from homelessness to housing, etc.
They would retain the sort of feeling of a single-family / single-floor house, just smaller and slightly denser.
Please stick to the topic of discussing the McHouse concept, and try to keep this thread a-political.
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