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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by notatoad on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:06PM (#16088449)
>In the US it's about $100-200 per square foot, in Western-Europe it's €1000-1500 per square metre.

quick conversion, because i had to google it: there's ~10.5sqft in a square metre, so those costs are roughly equal.

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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by bmelton on Saturday January 06, 2018 @09:03PM (#16088652)
Worth noting that there's a ~20% differential between the dollar and the Euro though.
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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by richardknop on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:54PM (#16089260)
The exchange rate oscillates, it used to be 1 euro bought you 1.5 dollars years ago but it has been on a downwards trajectory since the Euro crisis. According to some analyses I read eventually euro should reach parity with dollar if you give it enough time (so another decade later it might be 1:1).
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