Legacy Housing: Little Homes Offer Solid Potential

Tony Anderson/DigitalVision via Getty Images Over the past several decades, the average home has only gotten larger in size. That increase in size has actually been one of the primary drivers behind home affordability issues in this country. As an example, the median square footage of a single-family home that was built sometime in the 1960s would be around 1,500 square feet today. This is significantly greater than the 750 square feet that the original Levittown home was. By 2009, the average single-family ...