Eli5 why aren’t 2 story houses built with ramps instead of stairs?

Question

Are they just not practical? They seems cheaper to build instead of elevators for wheelchair bound people.

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Okay, grandma dinners ready! *all you hear is the rolling of rubber and a big ass SLAM as grandma crashes into the wall* grandma does not have that arm strength for that, my mother tried a ramp for her porch, it had small lips for people to walk up it, my dad slipped and fell down the whole entire 10ft ramp. Ramps are very dangerous unless they’re VERY slow inclines. That’s why wheelchair access is normally a slow ramp up that doesn’t feel like your doing much more than walking, so the space needed for an entire floor of slow incline would be insane.