Suburban housing development. Space and schools traded for distance.
It is an entire industry.
It exists to relieve The home that fit two does not fit three. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Road network, Car ownership, Property law and title records, Construction and homebuilding, Electricity generation and grid and Water infrastructure. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: Space was bought with hours on the road. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 5 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionSuburban housing development
- FrictionThe home that fit two does not fit three
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inShelter
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| D.R. Horton | $45B | public · DHI | entry-level and move-up homes, DHI Mortgage |
| Lennar | $35B | public · LEN | new homes, Lennar Mortgage |
| PulteGroup (Del Webb) | $25B | public · PHM | Pulte homes, Del Webb 55+ communities |
| DLF | $22B | public · DLF | residential development |
| Toll Brothers | $14B | public · TOL | luxury homes, active-adult communities |