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jevon's paradox says that improved efficiencies would increase consumption

I see a lot of comments here see "per capita" and think "residential consumption" - but the decrease is more indicating of general deindustrialization

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If houses get more efficient that doesn’t mean we build more houses? A case where jevons paradox doesn’t apply?

houses using less energy means energy is cheaper for everyone else, f.e. industry

Construction becoming cheaper and higher quality caused us to use way more space per person than 100 or 50 years ago.

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