most of the country suffers from natural disasters on a scale largely unheard of in europe (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes) yet we have brick houses while they have wooden shit that gets blown over by a breeze. it makes no sense
That’s one reason why houses are made cheaply, it doesn’t make financial sense to pour money into more expensive housing that’s just going to get destroyed. It’s much cheaper in many places to just rebuild. I should note that keeping prices as they are is a policy goal.
most of the country suffers from natural disasters on a scale largely unheard of in europe (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes) yet we have brick houses while they have wooden shit that gets blown over by a breeze. it makes no sense
That’s one reason why houses are made cheaply, it doesn’t make financial sense to pour money into more expensive housing that’s just going to get destroyed. It’s much cheaper in many places to just rebuild. I should note that keeping prices as they are is a policy goal.