“If you\u2019re working in the realm of market-driven development and trying to make it affordable sans subsidies, what you\u2019re really doing is gaming the appraisal market,”
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\n“In the end you\u2019re working with three factors: it\u2019s land cost, construction cost, and development cost, and you\u2019re trying to drive all that down,” Tate says.
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\n “Land costs are easy\u2014make the land smaller, that\u2019s where the small lots come from. Development costs come down with an integrated system and construction costs are being thoughtful about how you put the project together.”
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\n“What we\u2019re pushing against is the problem with speculative housing\u2014and housing in general\u2014which is people build larger homes because that\u2019s what markets well,” Tate says.
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\n “Being blunt here, they keep costs low by using cheaper materials. We\u2019re trying to invert that. Materially, it\u2019s a small house, but it\u2019s not a tiny house. The term used is ‘right sizing’; we\u2019re just trying to keep it as trim as we can. That money [saved on size] gets pushed back into finishes and quality details.”
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