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Are we too attached to old homes?

Jan 31, 2022
Housing supply has been an issue for years. Could Americans' love for old homes be part of the problem?
"You can find architecture critics in the early 20th century talking about how brownstones are these cheap, ticky-tacky, repetitive developments," said M. Nolan Gray. "and if you look over Brooklyn, right, there are a lot of these things, and they look all basically the same."
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