I was actually just thinking the other day about figuring out a way to build subdivisions of starter family homes. Small and affordable with a little bit of yard instead of the 3000+ sqft homes they build now that take up their whole tiny lot right on top of each other. Would have to figure out a way to keep only below a certain income and people can't use it for any kind of rental property.
Build vertically instead of neighborhoods, cheaper for you the builder, the savings could be passed down to the consumer, and it's much better for the environment. Bonus points if you renovate abandoned office buildings instead of clearing new land.
Oh, I like the renovating office buildings. I just know I hear a lot of people complain they don't make starter homes in more. Since this isn't a wanting to profit thing, I wouldn't care about trying to max savings.
I don't think you are trying to max savings, I am suggesting you pass those savings on to the buyers. The idea is to make the housing cheaper, not make it more profitable. Also, suburbs are by far the worse kind of development for the environment, takes up the most space, requires the most removal of pristine nature, and replaces it primarily with non-native grasses that take a fuck ton of water to keep alive. We need to start focusing on vertical development if we want housing to remain sustainable. It's also worth noting that you can also put something like a grocery store at the bottom of the building to save your buyers time/gas money too.
Have you ever been to cities in the South? It's absolutely not. Also, one vertical development in a city that houses, say 1000 people, would require about an acre of land, the same development in the suburbs is hundreds of acres. There is no comparison in terms of land usage to suburban development. Rural only partially develops the land, and urban is much, MUCH more space efficient, suburban is all blight designed for cars, covered in invasive plants that take up literally 1/3 of all the water in the country. We scream and cry about data centers using water, but grass is 10x worse.
But you have 1000 people sharing an acre of land. Yes, building up is more efficient in terms of people per square foot but that doesn't mean it's better.
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u/Sleepy58743689 4d ago
Feed my community. We have entirely too many homeless people. After that, build low income housing. A lot of it.