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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (31 children)

Rent apartments. Own houses.

*Since some people really need every combination addressed: Rent/own apartments. Own houses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Houses are pretty terrible for a multitude of factors:

urban sprawl
congestion
pollution
high cost public works
low income for public bodies doing those works
environmental erosion
flood protection

We should be building apartments that everyone can own, live and be happy in. It shouldn’t be reserved for home owners.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Houses are pretty great for a few factors

Not sharing a wall with a neighbor
being able to be louder in general
Not being woken up by neighbors
Not getting your home infested with bugs because of having a nasty neighbor
No loud honking at night
Not having your door accidentally knocked on to ask if your apartment neighbor is home when they’re not answering their door
Parking in your own garage
Having a yard for your dog/kids to play in

Apartments fucking suck in so many ways. I get that they’re pretty handy in City Skylines where everyone bases their urban planning experience from but there is a reason people prefer to live in house and it’s because it gives you separation from other people in a way apartments cannot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

How does a detached single family home prevent honking? Why haven't you explained to my neighbors they have to stop honking? Because they definitely still do, and it is still a nuisance

Detached homes definitely have many benefits, but they're incredibly expensive. If we didn't subsidize them so much, we'd have a whole lot more people living in denser housing. The US has something like 85% single family homes compared to around 40% in Germany

It's not that Germans are just so much better neighbors that they can put up with shared walls/spaces. It's just not worth the cost of a detached home when it isn't as heavily subsidized (they do still subsidize them compared to dense housing options)

TL;DR - Detached homes are fine, but we need to quit giving such massive subsidizes to them

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