• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I work in municipal development.

    100% of the single-family home projects that have been proposed in my area for the last year have been rental-only communities.

    Like - they don’t even want to give the houses individual water meters. They want to hook them all together, which means they can’t even be converted down the line to something else without digging up all the damn infrastructure.

    • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve visited some friends in those rental only neighborhoods. The lawns are all trashed. The neighborhood was less than three years old but it was already sliding toward a slum because of the clear lack of ownership by the occupants.

      Honestly I can’t believe that part of the rent didn’t go toward neighborhood wide lawn care.