Our new home in Tennessee required THREE tractor-trailer rigs to haul in the lumber/materials and it’s only 2,080 SF over a foxblock/concrete basement structure with log siding..
I think the estimates in this article are a little LOW, considering.
Also, didn’t Pedo Joe Biden just lock up another several bizillion acres of America’s forests by making them national parks unavailable to logging, mining, drilling, hunting (in some cases) and/or even hiking/camping?
Who’s ready for $90 a sheet 1/2” plywood - again? Tariffs on our timber-rich neighbor to the north?
And don’t forget the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act which some economists say was a major contributing factor to the GREAT depression of 1929?
I got mine. Gonna make popcorn and sit on the deck watching the sun - and maybe the nation - set.
10,000-12,000 houses isn’t really a lot of building for a metro area outside of California....about 1,483,000 permits were pulled in 2024 for US as a whole. While it is a good year in past 20 years, 12,000 homes were started in every month of the 1980s in orange county to the south. As a good portion of the exterior covering and roofs are going to steel if they are to be insured again.
The limitation is not lumber, but permits and manpower to rebuild.