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And these new, more densely packed houses will be chicken coops built out of toxic gas-emitting glueboard.
Old houses are often more solidly built and less lethal, and I favor retaining them where possible, rather than sending these precious resources to the garbage dump so that a wasteful economy can be kept humming.
My own house is from the 1950's, that blessed period after lead paint and before toxic glueboard construction.
Unlike today, decent strong wood, and other construction materials, were still available. It is built on bedrock, with sturdy foundations for the occasional 700-year mega-earthquake (it has been 300 years since the last one).
It is somewhat grander for a single person than would be approved by a rational, enlightened social planner, but I try to make up for that by using its resources in every practicable way for the benefit of those people around me whom I do not consider to be brain-dead, zombie garbage apes.
I think a Bolshevik apparatchik responsible for housing policy in the 1920's in Russia would be proud of me.
