new houses

so I'm thinking it should be illegal to build new houses. I mean I just read (in the trib of all places) 8,555 of the 160,000 residential addresses in Pittsburgh are "vacant/" There are 4,287 houses for sale in Pittsburgh right now. It seems to me we don't need any more houses - right?

You only build more of something if you need more. We seem to have WAY more houses than we need. So why build more - gluttony.

Long ago people stopped thinking of a house as a place to live and began treating it as financial masturbation. this is the expensive car taken to the nth power. The house is a stimulant and a status symbol upped to the insane ante by the rich or rich wanna be's.

My kids and I enjoy Who's the Boss re-runs. They are cute and don't have profanity, drugs, rapists, or anything offense beyond a slutty old lady. This house where Angela lives is a rich person's house??? She'd get laughed out of any of the new developments for such a pitiful existence.

It goes without saying too that if we lived in normal houses from the 50's and 60's we could afford to live as one income families and not whearehouse children in daycare etc. but I'm already on record about that.

Of course we will continue to build houses in Pittsburgh as the population goes down. The same will happen everywhere as people need stimulation that they don't get in their lives. Perhaps they could spend time with their kids....