Analysis
Gustavo Arellano's December 2007 Los Angeles Times opinionated article, "Mom?Dad?I'm home" (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-housingcrowd28dec28,0,2958732.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions), informs the audience of the problem of the "housing crunch" the U.S. faces with overcrowded cities and scarce space to construct new housing. Gustavo proposes that more people should live in more compact households containing a generation under one roof. By doing so, Arellano states that people will show more"...appreciation for open space and public gathering spots surge. Save your money as you watch housing prices fall. Watch neighborhoods transform into vibrant communities...". So not only will housing prices decrease due to the shortage of homes but communities will become more family oriented. Gustavo exemplifies his solution by using the stereotype of full Latino households. "...among many Latinos, whether packing five families into a one-bedroom apartment or children who don't leave the casa until marrying at 35...". Extending the time one spends in a household will open the door to cheaper prices and will increase the availability of new homes, which increases space to prevent over crowded cities.
Tone: informative
Would you, personally, live with your family until you are 35 to decrease crowded cities and lower prices of homes?
If this is such an easy solution to the 'housing crunch" why hasn't it been proposed?passed?
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hey raji waji!
personally i wouldnt live with my family for that long....maybe til i go to college. but i think living with em that long is a poor excuse. some people just arent responsible enough to carry out on their own.
nice article
-SeLeNe
wow! i honestly wouldnt live with my family until i was 35! i'll obviously be living away for college, and i think i would stay away. :) if this "house crunching" thing IS a good idea, i think people are just stubborn and dont want to live with their family until they're old. i think teenagers are especially eager to live on their own, and that might be why i hasnt been proposed OR passed.
Mrs. Petrelli :P
I don't think living with your family for 30 years is going to stop the overcrowded problem.and the person who wrote the article obviously doesn't live with his kin. Everyone knows that family is good and you love them, but spending more than a week with extended family will push you to the brink of sanity.His idea will only make people want to have their own house more.
i love my family alot but i couldn't live with them that long, even if it did lower the prices of homes. after a certain age a child needs to break away from home and experience life for themselves, how else are they ever gonna find their own identity. i believe that's hard to do when your still living with your parents, mom doing your laundry,dad paying your bills and your siblings never leaving you alone.
It's not a bad idea. But, it wouldn't benefit the economy, by allowing less investment in housing. It would actually make it more compromising, to make a house, accommodative to an entire generation of people. Obviously, 20 people aren't going to fit in a 4 room house with, one bathroom. His proposal needs a lil' more thought. But, it's workable. Although, I might not commit to it myself.
oh my goooodness!!!!! are you serious?!?!
the article:too funny.
the logic: idiotic.
a solution:hardly.
i wouold NOT live with my family until that age--that it happens in the Latino community it does. that i will follow the stereotype and expect it to be the solution to a crowded city i wont.
canada roxx! amen man, amen! sanity is much too precious. sure get less houses, "relieve" the crowdedness, but you'll also see a rise in looney houses. much love for the fam bam, but no. heck no.
let's all just move to texas, lots of space there, eh?
I must agree with everyone else. Who would want to live with one's family until the age of 35?! (Double-Eew!).I mean there's nothing wrong with the idea, but it would be to much to handle, all the commotion in an overcrowded household, it would be insane! Yes, it might help us save a dime or two, but it also wouldn't be worth having no peace for one-self. Although there are families who live in those conditions, and I have no idea how they deal with it. Isn't it too overwhelming?
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