Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by esotericn on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:45PM (#19803345)

Why a a dichotomy between a decent house, and a 'stack em high' mindset?

Terraced housing as seen all over Europe could house single families without issue. London is full of these things.

100sqm is really quite a decently sized home with gardens front and back. That's already a 10x density improvement.

Not everyone wants to live in an apartment surrounded by other people on all sides with no control over the place they live in (because it's all outsourced to a "management company" e.g. nonsense bureaucracy).

As far as I can tell all you're going to do by building tons of flats is entrench some sort of class system. Outside of elite city center locations only proles will be living in apartments.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:15PM (#19803565)

100sqm is undesirable to Americans. We need our living rooms and our man caves and our bedrooms for each child and our back yards.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by CydeWeys on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:34PM (#19804064)

100 m^2 is 1,076 ft^2. You're right that it's not large by American standards, but it's also not that small. And if you got a substantially shorter commute out of it, it might appeal to a lot of people.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by jacques_chester on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:22PM (#19803997)

America's most populous city is New York.

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