Should also also adjust for price/sqft and energy efficiency/insulation savings, lack of plumbing in some and ~15% without electricity. And also externalities of 1950s air conditioning designs that would have depleted the ozone by now if we stayed with them, and things like lead paint causing mental development issues.
Median wages are up since significantly since 1950 (most stagnation was after 1970s), and house building is expected to be heavily affected by purchasing power parity, using a heavy portion of local labor.
Occupational deaths in construction went from 8 per thousand workers in 1950 to below 2 per thousand today, but I couldn't find numbers for residential. In the 1950s, if there was as much highschool attendance as today, out of each medium sized highschool you'd expect a higher than 50% chance of one of your peers to eventually die in a construction accident.
Median wages are up since significantly since 1950 (most stagnation was after 1970s), and house building is expected to be heavily affected by purchasing power parity, using a heavy portion of local labor.
Occupational deaths in construction went from 8 per thousand workers in 1950 to below 2 per thousand today, but I couldn't find numbers for residential. In the 1950s, if there was as much highschool attendance as today, out of each medium sized highschool you'd expect a higher than 50% chance of one of your peers to eventually die in a construction accident.