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The average size of a new single-family home in the U.S. has increased significantly from about 1,600–1,660 square feet in 1975 to over 2,500 square feet by 2023–2025. While new home sizes peaked in recent years and have slightly decreased, they remain roughly 40–50% larger than homes built in the mid-1970s, despite smaller average household sizes.
Given this data, the key to building 10 million new homes in the country is not to reduce or eliminate regulatory standards, but to build homes that are “right-sized” for today’s smaller families.