These 11 charts show how American houses have changed since the '70s

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Houses have been getting bigger and fancier for the last several decades, and we have the charts to prove it.

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Every year, the Census Bureau releases data on the characteristics of newly constructed homes, and they recently released info on houses built in 2014.

We decided to take a look at how different aspects of new single family houses have changed over the last several decades.

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