Re:Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says
by dimmke on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:59PM
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>I disagree that people dislike shared and more dense housing because of their conceptions about what what noise insulation could be
Have you ever lived in apartments? Because It's the reason I bought a house instead of a condo or townhouse. Not everybody has families, in fact single person households are on the rise in the US and this style of living would be ideal for them.
Re:Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says
by lotsofpulp on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:27PM
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I had not considered that single person households would be more willing to live in shared housing if it had better noise insulation. That is a good point.
However, I feel like the cost for building concrete shared housing unit must be high enough such that the people willing to pay that much for shared housing units would rather just pay a little more and buy a detached stick house.
I agree with you that stick built is not desirable for multifamily housing or any housing that shared walls with other families.
I disagree that people dislike shared and more dense housing because of their conceptions about what what noise insulation could be. Shared maintenance would be more of a concern, but shared and dense housing has a ton of other drawbacks (on an individual family level), even though the society wide level benefits are positive.
Who would not want space to park their individual cars and store their skis and beach gear and have a backyard to throw parties in? Not to mention the use of zoning only for detached single family housing on larger plots of land to be able to keep out people who cannot afford as much from the local schools. But that is a separate conversation.