New housing development outside of San Antonio Texas called “Dream Collection” by their developer Lennar. Most floorplans are under 700ft^2

What if we built combloc sadness housing, but we spread all the blocks around like Legos on the floors of god's living room so they had none of the advantages of apartment blocks and also made them cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also isolated them in the burbs.

Why not apartments/terraces? Seems stupid to have them detached at that point.
- Because in an apartment you’d never get to wake up to views like this 😍🥰
  
  not to mention the freedom to
  in your very own 30 sq ft back yard
  
  I see that the designers were inspired by the Japanese internment camps
  
  If you told me this was the back side of an outdoor display park for sheds, I wouldn't even question it.
- Possibly due to insane regulations that make it impossible to build apartments... but easy to build single family detached homes.

they look like two story shotgun houses.
amazing how far we've come to build less sturdy versions of substandard worker housing from the Deep South 100-150 years ago.
reminds of the ironic brag "We are tomorrow's people."
- Watching the shotgun house get gentrified right in front of me, in my own city, has been crazy to watch. Ridiculous what people will pay for

Lots of wasted space here, I bet you could have minimized on cost and maximized on ROI by just building a couple of multifamily buildings instead. I would have thought there might be zoning issues causing these structures to be built, but after a few minutes of research, that area has "no zoning" and thus has no specific regulations it needs to abide by. What a weird "choice" to make here. You have to sell the American Fantasy of "homeownership" at any cost, right?
Trying to sell people this:
when it's actually this:
- I just want to say I appreciate the effor that went into the photoshop here for a one off
  
  haha thanks, I needed to kill time at work today.
- Don't understand why it seems like american developers don't want to build rowhousing

The American Dream is to draw a line in the dirt and glare at your neighbors from behind it.

Tiny Groverhouse
- I wish I knew what that meant
  
  Groverhouse is a memed-upon house by a guy who chronicled his house building online. The guy who built it knew enough how to erect a house in the first place, but had no sense about a house SHOULD br built, so it came out looking like a mess and with genuine problems, like electrical not being up to code, weird foundation exposures, etc.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUTVfHcc7c&list=PLD_l6XgBmhZiogzaE4DyN_1nbP9sjVJBS&index=

Okay those houses look like shit, but I will point out that the ground being all torn up and piles of construction debris being everywhere is pretty normal for mid-development complexes.
- Clearing the waste and doing landscaping will transform it from a mid-development complex to a mid development complex.

Tbf "nightmare" is also a type of dream.

It reminds me of the housing in The Jungle, but it's missing the raw sewage river.
Edit: https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/texas/san-antonio/converse/flora-meadows/dream-collection/felton/walkthrough
One of the plans at $147k / 850ft^{2 / 259m}2. It's comparable to the $50k tiny houses sold on Amazon.
- It's currently missing the raw sewage river. Give it 10 years
- To be fair, these at least have water power and at least some insulation. Those Amazon tiny homes are basically sheds with PVC pipes sticking out of them.
  That being said, they're still being sold at like a 10x markup
- 147k doesnt seem worth it for that small to me. in the same area you can buy shit for like 150 and get 2k sqr feet and 4 beds

for the love of god i beg you just paint it anything other than grey
- How are Amerikans supposed to feel at home in it if it isn't painted like an aircraft carrier?
  
  shame on the mexicans and the caribbean peoples for not injecting some SOLID BRIGHT COLORS onto these suburban neighborhoods

USAmerican houses look like such shit

uh I thought communism was when grey monotonous constricting living quarters what gives

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/ted-cruz-texas-senate-conspiracy-theories/
Although Agenda 21 does not have the force of law, right-wingers believe the treaty’s sustainable-development precepts will force Americans to live in “hobbit homes” and forcibly relocate residents from rural areas into densely populated urban cores. “Agenda 21 sounds like absolute crazy conspiracy theory nut stuff, but it’s not,” explains Glenn Beck. As Cruz puts it on his website:
How could
do this?

is it actually cheap for the floorspace tho

This the kinda housing you see in a movie, taking place in the USSR, that was critiqued as being "too on the nose" anti-commie propaganda during the red scare
- Don't think that lands. The common critcism is people being packed into apartment complexes "like sardines" which obviously doesn't apply for this, the mistreated goldfish equivalent of housing
  
  The american mind cannot comprehend apartment housing

Why are there so few windows and why are they so small? It wouldn't be terrible housing if there was greenery, few cafes and shops around and the whole thing was more lively but that won't fly with American zoning laws.

Some of these don't have garages, which is kinda wild for something that's at the very high end of car dependency.
death to america btw
- Going from the pictures it was constructed in gm_flat so I guess you just leave your car in the endless field surrounding your townhouse with the worse heating bill
- guess it depends which part of texas. It's not like they're getting a lot of snow and ice down there but I suppose sun is a big factor in much of the state. imagine it with an $80 harbor freight carport next to it, seeing as thats probably how they'll end up
  
  OP said it's San Antonio and that's far south enough that there's barely going to be any snow at all

Why did we stop putting windows in houses? Is the window tax back? Can we get some fucking light going on? Look at the sides of the houses, it's gonna be utterly dismal in there
- No clue if this is why but there's an interesting design aspect to setting up a neighbourhood so everyone's windows don't just look right in at each other, a lot of developers don't give a shit so instead of doing that design they just leave out windows. Easy peasy.
  
  Americans doing the racist Mexico filter irl but for the burbs

In a vague way it reminds of the ticky-tacky houses in the song Little Boxes
Little Boxes
A huge difference is that the ticky-tacky houses were bland and generic but nice. Those depressing gray houses look like they belong in Japanese internment camp - to steal a joke from this thread.

Any idea how much they're going for?

the world really is turning into Minecraft, most glaringly with our architecture

christ this is bleak. you bulldozed the thornscrub for this? couldn't even make them singlestory?

It's good that people are getting a chance to build equity that otherwise wouldn't be. Home ownership is one of the very few reliable avenues for wealth creation in the US. If you don't own your own home you will work until you die. Probably if you do as well, but definitely if you don't.
They definitely look like shit though. I agree w others that duplexes even would make more sense.
- the value of real estate is directly related through rents and mortgages to porky's ability to extract surplus value from the working class. it's only a reliable avenue for wealth creation because the system is rigged from the ground up so that most people will be stuck working until they die. building a bunch of cheaply made tiny homes in a massive sprawl won't fundamentally change that.
  
  No it won't, but short of land reform or the overthrow of capitalism affordable housing is good
  It's just shouldn't look like shit or be in the middle of nowhere

Whoever build these has never seen a house. These are the equivalent of that lion in Sweden made by the guy whose never seen a lion.

If only Texas had a ton of fucking unused land that you could put normal sized houses on and let people live in fucking dignity...

more windows than my apartment so honestly i'd take one....
- more sq footage too what the fuck

If your trying to save space why not make them town homes??? Why does it look like they tossed them around randomly on the lot??? Why are they in a white void of nothingness??? Why are all the doors and windows open when it looks so humid????????? This place looks abandoned.