House or apartment?

Woodznutz

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If you were planning future housing for people, would you favor homes with green space or apartment type housing without green space.
 
Depends on the individual.

When I was in school I had no time for mowing the lawn or plowing snow...an apartment worked great.

Now I have the time for all that plus I hate having annoying or noisy neighbors...I can do what ever I want in my house or yard. If I want to dig up a garden...I CAN! :D
 
Depends on the individual.

When I was in school I had no time for mowing the lawn or plowing snow...an apartment worked great.

Now I have the time for all that plus I hate having annoying or noisy neighbors...I can do what ever I want in my house or yard. If I want to dig up a garden...I CAN! :D
Different solutions for different times in a person's life need to be available. I have never had much use for apartments opting instead for duplexes during that time of my life. That being said, I have not lived in multiple unit housing since my second month of marriage 48 years ago. I prefer a home on acreage.
 
If you were planning out a city you would have to build a balance of both. Perhaps a few blocks of houses and an apartment building on either end of that section.

Then see what the demand is & go from there.
 
In densely populated areas, apartments are definitely the best choice, at least from the time when adults are first emancipated from their parents. When finances permit, they can move to single-unit housing, but apartments should be available that are posh enough for middle-class people and families.

I have been seeing on YouTube videos from a guy who is showing new apartment complexes in Russia. While I wouldn't want to live there now, they are very nice, and include extensive recreation areas and playgrounds for kids, ground-floor enclosed places for bicycles (etc), and parking for everyone, both indoor and out.
 
Depends on the individual.

When I was in school I had no time for mowing the lawn or plowing snow...an apartment worked great.
I live in a college student area. The students and others pack the snow down on the sidewalks walking to and fro. Then the city demands that property owners clean the snow off down to the concrete, so the same students and others don't slip and fall on the hazard that they created.
 
If you were planning future housing for people, would you favor homes with green space or apartment type housing without green space.
Housing with the shortest possible driveway to meet the minimum set back from the road. High density apartments, townhouses and condos come with too much hardscape.
 
I would favor affordable single-family homes built in developments restricted to such.
 
Housing with the shortest possible driveway to meet the minimum set back from the road. High density apartments, townhouses and condos come with too much hardscape.
I grew up in such a neighborhood. Large three-flats virtually at the sidewalk with scarcely four feet between buildings (street parking only). What little green space was pretty useless. Often just enough to hang clothes out to dry. Also, large 'rooming houses', very few 'apartment' buildings. Scattered single-family homes. Great neighborhood thanks to proximity to lakes, parks, churches, schools, shopping, hospitals, etc. A small city with big ideas.
 
I grew up in such a neighborhood. Large three-flats virtually at the sidewalk with scarcely four feet between buildings (street parking only). What little green space was pretty useless. Often just enough to hang clothes out to dry. Also, large 'rooming houses', very few 'apartment' buildings. Scattered single-family homes. Great neighborhood thanks to proximity to lakes, parks, churches, schools, shopping, hospitals, etc. A small city with big ideas.
I have lived in houses, apartments, a condo and a townhouse and I far prefer single family housing. That said, I do know that people these days prefer big houses and no yards, so the market definitely goes the other way from me.
 
I live in a college student area. The students and others pack the snow down on the sidewalks walking to and fro. Then the city demands that property owners clean the snow off down to the concrete, so the same students and others don't slip and fall on the hazard that they created.

Welp, that's what rock salt is for :D
 
It's been almost 2 decades since i built my farm

No bank would have anything to do with me back then

I built out of pocket, and lived in what most would consider 'spartan'

But realize in my state there is very little bureaucracy , it's libertopia for those who would opt to live in a hole in the ground......think a drywall bucket for a toilet , a woodstove , and whatever livestock might look good for din din......

I went from 200/210 to 155 on a 6' frame, my buds on the meatwagon made fun of me , called me 'aids boy' , and all

Doubtful i could repeat that pushin' the big 7Ohhhhh........


~S~
 
It's been almost 2 decades since i built my farm

No bank would have anything to do with me back then

I built out of pocket, and lived in what most would consider 'spartan'

But realize in my state there is very little bureaucracy , it's libertopia for those who would opt to live in a hole in the ground......think a drywall bucket for a toilet , a woodstove , and whatever livestock might look good for din din......

I went from 200/210 to 155 on a 6' frame, my buds on the meatwagon made fun of me , called me 'aids boy' , and all

Doubtful i could repeat that pushin' the big 7Ohhhhh........


~S~
My wife had an appropriate post on her social media this a.m. LOL
"We enjoyed our twenties back in the seventies much more than we are enjoying our seventies in the twenties."
 
If you were planning out a city you would have to build a balance of both. Perhaps a few blocks of houses and an apartment building on either end of that section.

Then see what the demand is & go from there.
High home prices and low wages have upset supply and demand. Instead of demanding people are settling for what they can afford.
 

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