How do you figure?
That was my point. Housing is treated like a commodity rather than a utility. But it being a commodity fetish is also what makes it inefficient. The costs of housing are rationalized as being a function of finite space, while there is no attempt to make use of the space we do have in any planned efficient way. Why does the block I live on NEED dozens of separate houses, mostly filled with the same kinds of things? It takes up far more room and costs far more than making one large structure we could all live in.
People are conditioned to live as separate isolated nuclear families as if this is an empowering luxury that they are entitled to, when it simply isn’t the case. Selling separate houses, cars, etc stimulates more economic activity which benefits the minority who control the economy while making the cost of living for the average person, family, community, etc drastically more expensive. On a small scale, us paying 1/10 or less what things cost now would be a boon, but to “the powers that be”, this would be a disaster which costs them.
