So save space by removing the second staircase, but add a big courtyard? An interior courtyard (atrium) with multiple staircases is a common solution. Small low rise apartments can have multiple exterior staircases, with each staircase landing leading to multiple apartments. No common hallways to divide the building.

people suck, I don't want shared spaces

I never actually thought of it that way, that's really informative thanks!!

Richest continent on the planet? Ffs, get your act together!

I also hate how most of these meetings are held at 9 to 5 at a time when most of the people are at their jobs . The majority of people who attend are old people so the results are very skewed

The financial credit side of this issue should not be ignored. Banks often create new money/credit not to build new houses but to instead buy up existing property, and their unregulated lending for these existing assets bids up the prices of these assets, which is the kind of nasty ponzi scheme that causes real estate bubbles. We should introduce laws to prevent banks from lending i.e. creating new money/credit for inflating the prices of existing assets thereby artificially inflating housing prices. This way, banks will be more incentivized to lend for building new homes instead of buying up existing homes. I like the idea of building public or non-profit (or as you describe it non-market) housing. Removing the many ridiculous laws that prevent people from building homes is even better, but these aren't the only solutions. It's important to look at the main origins of these problems (mainly the banking system) and not just the symptoms. A Land Value Tax could also be a great solution to this problem. It will promote efficient use of land (which can help increase the supply of housing) and prevent banks from lending money against the speculative value of land. LVT is also a great source of revenue for cities and municiplaities to fund public projects with, while reducing the burden of income and sales tax on everyday citizens. There's also the problem of local politicians being in the pockets of real estate companies, banks, and other financial vested interests. Or the politicians may even benefit from the unhindered speculation in the housing market themselves, which would mean it's not in their own economic interest to change things for the greater good.

What about fire escape access factors??

to compare, you have to considère, when ant how the mortgage interest rate at the time of the construction, also unemployment rate mean, the economy is goo, then, the construction are fancier

I really think we should have this rule, but it should be more based on lot size and less based on the amount of stories. Those big apartment lots can have 2 stairs easily, so it's fair to require them. Though for really tall buildings, maybe going above 10 stories or something, maybe they should be required to have two staircases, or at least an especially large single staircase.

Insurance and lawyers rule the country. It is not a country, it is a business.

Maybe the reason why this is not happening is because people don't want their neighborhoods looking like third world neighborhoods.

Government regulations make our lives miserable and expensive. Same old story.

A good example how regulators too all of that from you, boys and girls

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Because of the danger.

Housing crisis triggers a market crash or a financial crisis, it could send shockwaves through the stock markets worldwide. I’m worried about my investment of over $600K stocks. Is this a time to consider diversifying my portfolios?

Those apartments are great. Places overseas can be incredibly small.

Corporations rule the western world back by government guns. They took God out of the equation, tore down the nations history, established a consolidated stranglehand on their power and all the people are left with is mud water in their concentration camp.

How to reinvent the wheel... ahh video

Clearly the community of that neighborhood died a long time ago. Just like America. They died the same way and for the same reasons. Now all thats left are some people humping a corpse. Corporations back by government guns literally killed off everything sacred and true. If there is anything that actually remains its a mere handful of fading memories left within a few.

Capitalism isnt a sustainable system.

TBH I watched whole video with one thought in my mind, "this kinda looks like most neighborhoods in EU at least or at least in Poland. Single staircase, with minimal corridor, make apartments wral up qnd take the mac amount of space of the floorplan

i live in tucson, its pretty so-so when it comes to modern zoning reforms, all weve really done on a city wide level is allow for ADUs. we have a lot of missing middle neighborhoods though, but often when new infill development is built there, its chunkier and less dense than the stuff that is already there.

We are too fat for stairs

Another question is why drive your child to/from school when a school bus will do it _for_ you? A related question is why drive your child to/from the school bus _stop_ when they're perfectly capable of walking the short block or two _themselves_ ? I see traffic jams at schools and neighborhood school bus stops all over suburban Virginia. Why??? When did this become a thing???

I don't understand why anyone would want to live in an apartment... But I don't understand why you want to live in a city either.

In Texas, I’ve only lived in two-story apartments. There are plenty of them. I prefer an end unit on the second floor. But I just had a detached house built in a suburb and I love it.

I prefer Southern False Creek. Such as the Leg-In-Boot area and Granville Island area to the old Expo lands, to the Expo Line.

5:50 for me working in EMS, that maze of staircases looks like a nightmare to me. To be honest: I love new approaches, but it has to stay simple and functional for scenarios like moving in and out with large and heavy stuff, or being able to get patients down from upper floors easily

There is a problem with the assumptions and equating the housing market and wealthy and/or foreign ownership in NYC with a city like Austin. Manhattan apartments and ownership or rental by the wealthy is a market where they are very much looking at the 1 to 3 bedroom condos and coops - NOT individual housing. The ability to have a safe and secure home with little to no upkeep because it is in a doorman/elevator building is highly sought after. Many of the conversions out of 421a to luxury market buildings (even if term is overused) become buildings that are often no longer occupied by full time residents as they were previously. Pied-a-terres are extremely common in Manhattan.

The no single staircase buildings is a fire safety feature. This is based on fires in the building, which is very important.

Here in Denmark the public hearings are always written (online or mail) and the cityplanners will comment on the responses before presenting the final results for the council. You will have 4-8 weeks depending on the size of the project to submit a written comment. It's not acting as a poll for people supporting or against the project, but as a way to speak up about things that was forgotten or overseen in the planning face. For bigger developments of new parts of a city, there will also be a public hearing with and without attendance and sometimes also a workshop, for people to give their inputs for what they wish for in this new part of the city.

investors and pension funds draw the money from scarcity

The problem is not about a capitalist or not capitalist solution (government or private owned). Not only because non market housing is not non capitalist ... But because whatever the type of housing the only question is how much housing is being built. On the long run that's the only thing that matters: building enough. Then you just create the fiscal, financial and regulatory framework that increases the supply of housing (with as good quality as possible). There's market capitalist solutions, capitalist solutions, non capitalist market solutions, capitalist non market solutions... But those that work are those that enable enough supply

Don't have a job = can't afford housing. Have a job = can't afford housing. So why have a job?

I wish you had gone more into why these rules exist

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All this share gathering place in residential building are good idea. On paper. If you live in such building, after certain time it's just point of disturbance.

Homes have always been "unaffordable" to single people. So if you do not want to get married, then plan on working two jobs to keep a roof over your head, reducing your expectations, or getting a roommate. It's good to have choices in the market place. Upward and downward socio-economic mobility is a the hallmark of a free country and society.

North America? You mean Canada? lol

Japan didn't build out of fireproof materials until after ww2 because of earthquakes. Earthquakes are why we build out of wood on the west coast, actual earthquake proof buildings are way way way too expensive to be made out of brick

There is no "housing crisis", it's a crisis of unchecked and unneeded immigration driving up demand.

I guess you have not been to Athens ... ugliest apartment blocks in the world

Love the idea of packing people into cramped living spaces while there is millions of acres of undeveloped land. The amount of people we could fit between LA and Baker California is insane. We don’t need sardine cans. Humans aren’t meant to live like that. This is purely real estate profit driven garbage.

I hate car dependancy so much. As someome who cant deal with the bus as it is over stimulating and forced to drive everywhere i just wish we had trains in trams and it makes me depressed that it isnt going to happen in my lifetime

Run for office if you don’t like how it’s being done

11:00 they're already to far in the sunk cost fallacy to have any effect

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IMO, entities like corporations should not be allowed to own any property earmarked as residential. That and impose a progressive sales tax on any property a person owns beyond the first.

The apartment buildings are only nice in the city centre. Outside that, they are as ugly, or uglier than American ones