$7250 ‘Westwood Lake’ Housing Advertisement from 1955
An old advertisement for new houses priced at $7450 circulated on Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook.
An old advertisement for new houses priced at $7450 circulated on Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook.
A viral tweet, possibly intended as a joke, suggested that hermit crabs have a better system for equitable housing distribution than humans.
The fundamental premise of a viral Facebook post (itself a Twitter screenshot) wasn’t inaccurate, but the economic picture is even more disheartening than it suggests.