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Homebuilders are fighting green building. Homeowners will pay. | Using questionable math, industry lobbyists are frustrating efforts to make new houses more efficient and compatible with clean tech (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What would be great would be not building single family homes at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, no. I never want to hear my neighbor through a common wall or ceiling.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is sound dampening to avoid that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have never, in my life, seen an apartment or condo with that level of stc or iic rating, much less one installed correctly. The only place I’ve been in with that kind of treatment is a SCIF for TS/SCI functions and you could build a whole good damned single family house for that kind of money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No thanks. I mean I'm firmly in the build more apartments crowd but I want to own my own place with a yard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I believe the term for that is NIMBY.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I believe the term is preference. I prefer to own a home. I don't mind being neighbors with an apartment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes! Cram everyone in apartments! People living on all sides is the dream! Who could possibly want land or space between them and neighbors!? Eliminate choice, push everyone into a box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Um, did you forget that duplexes and town-homes exist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Still not space or land

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This, but unironically.