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Simple solution - build more units on the site to maximize benefits.
AoD
There's a case to be made for that, however, the modular housing model, sans conventional elevators doesn't really work at over 4s in height.
Also, buildings that are entirely vulnerable populations get a lot more blowback at +60 residents, and truthfully outcomes often deteriorate in a non-mixed income scenario.
If we opt out of the configuration done here, we're probably looking at the 'Housing Now' model; which hasn't exactly worked out great so far, though a lot of that is a financing issue.
But the Housing Now model for higher heights also wouldn't work on many of these sites which are on side streets, surrounded by low-rise.
Again, I'm in the pro-camp here; I'm not drawing definitive conclusions on what went wrong here; and I'm not switching to the Anti camp. But I think we need to gain an understanding of why build costs have come in much, much
higher than they should have.
Double the ft2 here also doesn't lower your cost that much because the land was 'free'. It does allow some amortization on lobby, support service offices and such, but as the building code demands more the higher you go, I'm not sure that trade works here either.
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