why are most suburban houses in the US built with wood, instead of bricks and mortar?

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why are most suburban houses in the US built with wood, instead of bricks and mortar?

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Answer 1

These days in the mid west it is just the price of brick, and the vinyl and or steel siding they use today is relatively maintenance free. They use to build brick homes because maintenance was so much lower than wood siding. The one place you can’t build brick homes is an earthquake zone. Masonry construction is failure prone in earthquakes.