[DocTomoe]

You paint a very inviting image, that makes a lot of sense - until you realise that low-income, three-story living units often looks more like

https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/plattenbau-dessau-tobias-...

... which clearly is not what encourages building a community like you imagine.

Before someone comes and says that I picked the worst image I could find ... nope. This is the standard for "affordable multi-story apartment housing" in my rather affluent country. In many parts we actively demolish them because no-one wants to live there (location is often semi-suburban) and because they are breed a social-problem-area.

[ericmay]

Couldn't agree more. We should stop building bullshit like that (i.e. modern style that is soulless and devoid of humanity) and instead just build great looking apartments. Typically people will say "oh but that's so expensive look at how much these cost" but they're expensive because we don't build them, and they are highly desirable.

These are just some random examples in Paris. We should build more like this. We can. There are no barriers. None.

https://bonjourparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Montmart...

https://www.girlsguidetoparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08...