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by randmeerkat 2011 days ago
Maybe, developers could still build high density housing though. From what I’ve been told, developers prefer McMansions because of the profit margins.
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That’s an equation with a bunch of factors. As soon as average land costs go over a certain threshold and apartment living is normalized, it becomes much more profitable to build up several units over the same plot of land.