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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It has to be cheaper to provide an apartment building power, water and sewage and waste removal than 100 seperate houses spread over a couple of square miles of land
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Originally Posted by Dan02
The complex I live in has 494 units downtown, when you go out of downtown to say Tuxedo, the same land area where we have 494 unit, has 10 single family houses. There are 50 times more pipes and roads and electric lines to maintain to service the same number of properties.
Instead of 1 garbage/recycling pickup, there's 494 separate pickups.
I could go on but hopefully that helps you understand the difference in the level of costs to maintain the infrastructure.
It is massively more expensive to service SFH in the suburbs then multifamily buildings yet the differences aren't reflected reasonably in the tax rates.
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In some cases, yes, having it very consolidated does lower the cost per person/land, I'll totally agree with that. I'm also not comparing a suburb house to a condo unit, I was strictly speaking of inner vs burbs. There are tons of condo's outside of the inner city and the same building outside of the inner city with the same # of units will be cheaper to service the closer to the source of the services it is, especially in an area designed to handle it from the get go.
Upgrading a inner city lot to a large condo unit typically requires services upgraded, and this all costs money too. There's a crap ton of sewage pumping stations just handling the extra flow from these buildings that have to be maintained, in addition to the upsized piping. The more you have, the more costly it becomes. Now, I also see a benefit of having 4 condo buildings on the same block so you can use one pumping station of 250hp pumps instead of spreading them out. The matter isn't as simple as everyone makes it though, services isn't just the amount of pipe/wire it takes to service one person.
I'd really like to see the city breakdown service maintenance costs for specific areas, but we likely will never get that info.