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A comment on Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell developers they can build homes. Parent comment
> You don't really save all that much money by building a barely livable pod vs an actual apartment.
Okay, so build normal size apartments then. Even if it's the same price as a house 2-3 hours away, you're removing 3-6 hours of commute time.
The important part is splitting land costs over tens of units instead of just one or two, not exactly how many tens.
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> You don't really save all that much money by building a barely livable pod vs an actual apartment.
Okay, so build normal size apartments then. Even if it's the same price as a house 2-3 hours away, you're removing 3-6 hours of commute time.
The important part is splitting land costs over tens of units instead of just one or two, not exactly how many tens.