All these attempts to make inexpensive, affordable housing like this completely ignore the fact that it's not the house itself that's so expensive. It's the land.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

these require much less land than a detached single family home....

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what do you mean "apartment block"?

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, though I feel like this kind of "cheap and easy to build housing" is exactly the kind of thing that appeals to the near-sighted 'real-estate developers' of today.

Why spend so much time and money building a duplex, when you can plop some shipping containers on a lot and start leaching in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the investment?

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

A tall apartment complex is way more tenants for not much more land though, so it doesn't even work for that.