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- graham1 ( @graham1@gekinzuku.com ) English2•1 year ago
No paywall https://archive.is/FL240
- JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
The upside of this is very cheap housing (compared to the US anyway). I lived in Osaka for 2 years in a new apartment and it was about $575/month. A buddy of mine bought a large house in the countryside for ~40k$. Housing as an investment provides incentive for property owners to limit housing to protect their investment. Also, they don’t directly mention in the article but these houses are mostly pre-fabricated and assembled very quickly.
I’m not saying it’s not wasteful, but I would much prefer the Japanese housing model to the American one.