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> You would have to design these weird apartments though that are like a thinly sliced pizza with no central area.

Those used to be called "shotgun houses" (or, less euphemistically, "shotgun shacks") though they were rectangular, not pizza-shaped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house

Of course, people did live in them because they were cheap.

In overpriced urban areas, the "pizza slice" configuration might be tolerable to some, if it were cheap enough.