Is this adjusted for inflation?

I find slightly different numbers from different sources but they are all pretty close to around 1600 square feet in 1970 to 2600 square feet in 2016(last year listed).

The number of houses with two or more bathrooms has gone from 30% to 80%.

https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf

In Germany, yes. In Germany if you poor away a little bit after a party you hear: „Das gute Bier“ (The good bear). Nobody complains about throwing away food though

Is everyone reading this with their head tilted left at a 90-degree angle? :)

The above snippet is referring to West Virginia, not Mississippi (for anoyone else that was confused)

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What an ugly graph. I always thought this sub was about beautiful data and not just about "I copied some data into Excel and used the ugly standard formatting".

Should have included the numbers with each individual column.

Almost every one of the states at the bottoms of ranking lists has one ironic similarity. And when people who represent that similarity ever bring up "secession" or "civil war," I think about how they are justifying why they are at the bottoms of so many of these lists.

I mean there is only a certain amount of in demand land in locations people want to live— even if you allow unlimited density the most popular land would still increase in value…. But yes the actual housing built on said land should depreciate.

Interesting to see Ireland so high on the list of given that it was also second on top calories eaten per day chart that was posted earlier.

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In Czechia we have 12-8 rule. If you arrive at a pub at noon, you drink 8 Beers. If you go at 8pm, its 12 you have to drink. So I would say tourism has little effect /s

The price controls are made by existing homeowners through restrictive zoning. There is no reason why housing should go up in price. Everything is supposed to go down in price, EXCEPT income. Anything going up in price in a free market is an economic aberration. An even simpler solution to cut housing costs is to legalize living in cars, but homeowners and landlords don't like that either, now do they? More of your "price controls"...

Namibia showing its colors as a former German colony. Gabon is a bit surprising to me, though.

Compared to D.C., California and Washington perhaps but a 300 to 800 percent increase isn't what I'd call flat.

Czech Republic, great bunch a lads.

Well you need food to live, clothes to live, medicine to live, electricity and gas to live. How many things is the government supposed to provide?

Housing gets a bad wrap, but the truth is every industry I mentioned would stop functioning if it weren’t for investors.

tried czech beer and its good stuff

I think it's mostly geography rather than political affiliation. Red states like Utah, Arizona, Montana and Florida are above average. The South and Midwest are below average. Overall, Blue States are higher but I think it's driven by geography.

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So is the X labeling just rotate the whole thing 90 degrees at that rate and make the image a little taller instead of wide. Everyone is turning their head or their phone anyway.

Would be interesting to see this data compared to voting tendencies. Initially, looks like a lot of blue states are experiencing the largest price increases while red states remain relatively flat.