Be It Ever So Humble

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Americans’ zeal for buying big new houses is now widely blamed for sending the global economy into a near depression. It’s almost a surprise, as such, to be reminded by the Census Bureau that most Americans don’t inhabit vast McMansions after all.

In a Census report on American Community Survey data for 2008, we learn that just 11 percent of the nation’s homes have nine or more rooms. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 4 percent consist of a just one room, and another 27 percent have two to four rooms.

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