{"id":78671,"date":"2018-05-15T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/is-bigger-really-better"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:06:28","slug":"is-bigger-really-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/is-bigger-really-better","title":{"rendered":"Is bigger really better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RMZKrtt8i1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The United States is facing a housing crisis: Affordable housing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/02\/opinion\/affordable-housing-crisis.html\">is inadequate<\/a>, while luxury homes abound. Homelessness remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudexchange.info\/resources\/documents\/2017-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">persistent problem<\/a> in many areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, popular culture has often focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/housing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">housing<\/a> as an opportunity for upward mobility: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15295030903583549\">American Dream wrapped within four walls and a roof<\/a>. The housing industry has contributed to this belief as it has promoted ideals of \u201cliving better.\u201d Happiness is marketed as <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1527476408315115\">living with both more space and more amenities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an <a href=\"https:\/\/stuckeman.psu.edu\/faculty\/alexandra-staub\">architect and scholar<\/a> who examines how we shape buildings and how they shape us, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Conflicted-Identities-Housing-and-the-Politics-of-Cultural-Representation\/Staub\/p\/book\/9781138297012\">I\u2019ve examined the trend<\/a> toward \u201cmore is better\u201d in housing. Opulent housing is promoted as a reward for hard work and diligence, turning housing from a basic necessity into an aspirational product.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-bigger.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-bigger.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is facing a housing crisis: Affordable housing is inadequate, while luxury homes abound. Homelessness remains a persistent problem in many areas of the country. Despite this, popular culture has often focused on housing as an opportunity for upward mobility: the American Dream wrapped within four walls and a roof. The housing industry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78700,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78671\/revisions\/78700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}