High rise condos are never meant to solve housing affordability. The cost of service skyrockets as the height of building increases. Just think about the cost and maintenance of multiple elevators, , swimming pools, fire suppression systems, staged water booster pumps, central chillers and boilers, seismic dampers, none of these will make your living box affordable. The more skyscrapers a city has the worse the housing affordability will be. Low rise condos are the real solutions.
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I'm not sure that is quite true
Her is an interesting article on the costs of not building tall: https://buildingtheskyline.org/skyscrapers-and-affordability/
Oh one more thing I forgot even to mention: the cost of insurance for high rise. Just imagine the cost of repairs when a top floor flooded. All lower floors are ruined. This is not a bias this is physics. Low rise condos are the ONLY solution. I am in the industry and I know what money is involved for such things. 🤙