Re: Housing .. uses 0.5% of land

"Enough Already" <enough_already@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message ...
> Does anyone think about how much land gets covered by blessed housing
> starts each year?

Total acreage of the U.S. = 1876 million acres
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/geo_lan_acr_tot-geography-land-acreage-total

Assuming 100 million households, and assuming the average "house" covers
0.1 
acres (should be much less than that due to apartment buildings, condos) 
then houses cover 10 million acres.

Percent of land covered by houses:  10/1876 = 0.5%

If this doubles over next century, then 1% of land will be covered. (Note:

much of this will be due to Mexican immigration, so lots of crummy
'houses' 
in Mexico will become abandoned and will revert to nature)

Dan in Philly