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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is basically how it is in Japan and why Tokyo is actually affordable to live in. https://youtu.be/d6ATBK3A_BY

Of course, this might not be implementable anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That's not the real reason housing in Tokyo remains affordable. The real reason is they allow developers to build enough housing to meet demand. Places that were small hamlets filled with single family homes 30 years ago are now very densely populated and filled with midrise apartment buildings. Good luck trying to get anything like that built anywhere in America, or most of the western world.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE0.FEn5.DUkcV7dCs21X&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems relatively affordable for a city considered to be one of the most economically important cities in the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Affordable, that's God damn cheap idk what salaries are in Tokyo but that sounds pretty good.