The American Dream Re-Brand: It now comes in a small house package…

Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:

It wasn’t long ago.

Back in 2008, the housing crisis turned streets like the one below into ghost towns.

Fifteen years later, the fiat-driven housing crisis is getting a rebrand.

Now, many people are gladly accepting the re-brand as their future.

Families no longer want to “keep-up-with-the-jones,” take on huge amounts of debt for the double-car garage, or add on another $25,000 for a pool in the backyard.

That’s because a new growing trend has become almost unbelievably popular.

At least, it would have been unbelievable just over 15 years ago.

No one would’ve ever conceived of something like this.

Call them what you want, they’re trailer parks re-branded as the American Dream.

Tiny homes…

Micro-apartments…

And even villages, communities, and farms…

This is what a housing crisis looks like in small, shoebox size bites.

You saw how it started in 2008.

As money printing expands the supply, money gets easier, and debt climbs higher, first houses get phenomenally large, then they get smaller.

The trend has been growing since the Great Financial Crisis (2008).

Natural News reports:

Micro-housing surges in U.S. cities as housing crisis deepens

“The American dream of spacious suburban living is shrinking as micro-housing construction surged by double digits in recent years.

A new report conducted by StorageCafe, an online platform offering nationwide listings for storage units, reveals that 2.4 percent of new rental units built in the 2020s measure under 441 square feet – more than double the share seen in the early 2000s. 

Micro-housing, once a niche solution for factory workers and transient populations, has evolved into a mainstream option for young professionals, downsizing retirees and budget-conscious renters.

The West Coast is now into micro-housing, with 15 percent of units in San Francisco under 441 sq. ft. and nearly 30 percent of new developments falling into that category. 

Seattle follows closely, with 12 percent micro-units and 66 percent of upcoming rentals designed as compact spaces. 

Honolulu, constrained by limited land, has seen 27 percent of new rentals built as micro-units in the 2020s.”

Seems quite far from the 1950s American Dream, but here we are.

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