This is clownish bullshit:

This distortion is caused by the top 10% having much, much larger houses, skewing the average (and households have gotten smaller).

The reality is this:

Noah Smith and related econs (emphasis on “con”) cannot admit the above is the common case as that leads to exile from the profession — because the whole point of modern economics is to exalt power and wealth. As a result, nearly all of the economic stats you see are just pure lies.

(And no, this is not sour grapes. I make well above 4x the median individual income, and that does not include any of my quite numerous and profitable stock market shenanigans. I am doing great. Others, not so much.)