re: Average Sq Ft of homes by decade

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LMAO. They can't balance a checkbook.

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Okay, awesome. We have common ground.

Do you think those poor economic decisions and irresponsible policies have made things more expensive and had many negative ramifications for the American worker?

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That's room for a lot of houses.

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Yep and it's part of the regulation driving up development cost. A developer automatically loses a huge portion of land due to the parish requiring retention ponds to offset watershed

I am not saying it isn't needed FYI as it obviously relieves flooding issues but just adding to the convo that lot development is increasing yearly.

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I don't expect the government to ever fix themselves since they don't have a great track record. I'll worry about my family and secure our future. So, I'll build my own house this year and cut out a lot of bullshite costs. F waiting on the government to do something right.

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That doesn't answer my question. My question was

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Do you think those poor economic decisions and irresponsible policies have made things more expensive and had many negative ramifications for the American worker?

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I would assume that given your opinion on the governments inability to get it's financial shite together, you'd agree that fiscal policy has harmed the American worker?

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Choices have consequences.

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Yeah, this is true but it's always been true to some extent. Back in the good ol' days, people chose to buy meat at the grocery instead of standing in line at the soup kitchen for a free meal. They chose to buy a bus ticket instead of sneaking into the rail yard to hop a box train with the other hobos. They chose to buy new clothes instead of sewing and patching their old rags together.

What we are talking about here and in other similar threads is the STANDARD of living. Today, the standard is bigger, better and broader in every aspect and in many cases you get more bang for the buck. The problem is that the buck has not kept pace so more (good) people feel the standard is beyond their reach.

Normally, I wouldn't care if people are deprived of modern luxuries or have to suffer the indignity of going without Game of Thrones, granite countertops or the latest iphone gadgets but when people feel the basic standard of the American Dream is hopelessly out of reach then they dropout of important civic responsibilities like getting married, having kids, being productive in the workforce, striving to be a better neighbor and citizen, etc... and that has CONSEQUENCES for all of us.

Is that just new homes? All homes? Also, I say this in every thread talking about averages. What's the median?



Based on the data I found, this # in OP is probably for new homes.

The median for the overall housing inventory is 1,800 sq ft. So 50% of homes are <1,800 sq ft.

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Aren’t some of these areas having drainage issues due to construction projects as well?

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Yes and also poor maintence

Cities and parishes don’t maintain drainage as well as they should. Creeks aren’t cleaned out often enough and ditches are allowed to fill with sludge. A friend had to beg his parish to remove a beaver dam near his property that was causing flooding issues. That shouldn’t even be controversial, but it took him and his neighbors a few months to get it removed.

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I would assume that given your opinion on the governments inability to get it's financial shite together, you'd agree that fiscal policy has harmed the American worker?

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Let me back up. The US government has a spending problem, and the deficit bothers me to no end. I would like them to cut spending to better pay our bills, not cutting spending and turn around and hand that money to someone else. That's my stance on fiscal policy.

Would I have also loved to see less printing of money post-covid that led to inflation hurting Americans? Abso-fricking-lutely.

While annoying, I was very glad when they completely redid and cleaned out the drainage and sewers in downtown LC a few years ago.

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Youngsville got hit with a few floods over the last 10 years. Lots of the problems stemmed from clogged ditches, not enough culverts under roads etc. I'll be moved out before they figure it all out.

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Lake Charles had a 100-year flood in 2021. It was only after that flood that the city and parish decided it needed to clean up debris clogging ditches from the past 3 hurricanes. They are still cleaning the drainage up 5 years later. Just poorly planned, delayed maintenance.

They did dig a huge retention pond off of McNeese Street by some ghetto houses that was needed at least a decade ago

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Lake Charles had a 100 year flood in 2021. It was only after that flood that the city and parish decided it needed to clean up debris clogging ditches from the past 3 hurricanes. They are sill cleaning drainage up 4 years later. Just poorly planned delayd maintenance.

They did dig a huge retention pond off of McNeese Street by some ghetto houses that was needed at least a decade ago

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LC can't catch a break. I spent a few weeks there with the Guard after hurricane Laura. I've worked a lot of hurricanes, but that is some of the worst wind damage I've ever seen.

How's the housing market there now?