@bob its cheap to build them but they are a vernacular housing to the southern US not the Northeast
the area near the Northern Cut canal is not prime real estate and possibly will flood so the shotgun houses i made were a compromise to house the rapidly growing villager population out of available Spruce and Bamboo, despite us originally being in a birch forest
we had used most of the wood for charcoal to fire bricks so new spruce and bamboo replaced it