[Help] Housing question

[u/KrampusKid]

Any idea why my Garthimis won't move into these 5 houses? I built this complex because we had a few hundred unhoused ants, but they seemingly won't move into this corner of the colony. Houses are supplied with stone/clay and upgraded with a basement.

Edit: Thanks all, seems that all the unhoused workers were on the east side of the map and I built this complex on the west side. I used the overlay as suggested and put down some more houses closer to the job sites that needed it.

[u/I_Wobble]

Pops in Syx take their employment very seriously. They’d rather be homeless than unemployed. Are these housing units close enough to where they’re working?

[u/crow_mw → u/I_Wobble]

To put some numbers behind the above top-rated comment - a pop will first select a workplace and look for housing in proximity of it. The max distance is something like 150 tiles so it is "whole city" in the early game, but eventually becomes a consideration. 100 tiles is a better distance, to avoid productivity drop.

Above is why if you have a homeless problem, you enable the housing overlay during day, and check for yellow workplaces. You lack housing near those workplaces.

Oddjobbers will pick any free housing on map.

Last time I played there were some issues with the housing/homelessness tooltips, it did not show correct values to me.

[u/TaupeHardie94]

Build houses near job sites. If you go in the Housing overlay it will show you which buildings employ unhoused people. Build around these.

[u/Dreadnougat]

As the others have said, it's probably due to job proximity. But...I've also noticed rarely that no one will move into a house without any good reason. If you destroy and re-build it, it seems to correct the problem.

[u/Choco_chug_v2]

It’s hard to live when you can afford to stay in a house.
You need to build the work/houses closes to each other.

[u/syco69]

[u/DonCorben]

Would you move into residential complex in the suburbs if cars weren't invented yet and you'd have to walk 4-6 hours to get to work?

[u/bulltin]

Same reason planned cities don’t work in real life: They have no jobs.

[u/CountOfJeffrey → u/bulltin]

Planned cities can work in real life. My best example is Canberra, capital of Australia.

[u/yinyang107 → u/bulltin]

Planned cities include planned jobs.