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Originally Posted by Mazrim
This is my uneducated opinion, but I don't feel like there are too many family friendly builds going on in new condo buildings. I've lived in enough 600-900 ft2 narrow rectangles to know that I wouldn't want to try to raise kids like that. Maybe when affordable 1100-1400 m2 3 bedroom/1.5 bathroom condos with decent sound proofing become the norm, we can start tackling the issue.
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I think this is why upzoning central neighborhoods will never really provide "affordable" family sized housing. The cost of acquiring the land, building up and the needed infrastructure/utility upgrades means that whatever replaces old SFHs in desirable neighborhoods will also be expensive.
Despite whatever urbanists say, sprawl is the only thing that creates affordable family sized housing (by North American standards) on a large scale.