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11 charts that show how American houses have changed since the 1970s

Andy KierszJun 5, 2016, 15:30 IST

concreteforms via flickr

Houses have been getting bigger and fancier for the last several decades, and we have the charts to prove it.

Every year, the Census Bureau releases data on the characteristics of newly constructed homes, and they recently released info on houses built in 2015.

We decided to take a look at how different aspects of newly completed single-family houses have changed over the last several decades.