• TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How many houses are there in the city even? I'm assuming they're not talking about apartment units.

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      They're probably row houses, which function like horizontally stacked apartments with shared walls but each one having its own numbered street address. Very popular with slumlords.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Oh, the townhouses here are actually quite nice. Compact, but less so than an apartment, and you get a little yard.

        • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, they run the spectrum from project housing to luxury townhomes. It's just a more efficient way of packing single family homes into a given area than a regular detached house, but cheaper for urban developers to build than a high rise apartment building.