Not the way we are accustomed to building detached houses in USA--but ditch the yards and reduce the building footprint (keeping overall costs lower & making such houses more accessible for low-income buyers) and it's another story https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1011301084348858368 …
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compare: "townhouse"-style apartment complex in Framingham MA (every unit shares at least a wall with at least one other unit) vs. residential neighborhood in Ota Ward, Tokyo (mostly detached houses with some "townhouse" and other apartments scattered throughout)pic.twitter.com/6X46TJPIQ8
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Let's compare at street level:pic.twitter.com/iVNv1AluJH
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Is having a "yard" really worth it when it's neither under your custody nor exclusive for your use? If you can't mow or garden, and can't decide who hangs out there or not--wouldn't it be better just to skip having a yard at that point, and go for something like Ota Ward instead?
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Basically, I can understand why people would rather live in a typical US suburb than in the pictured neighborhood--but I have trouble imagining anyone would rather live in typical US "dense development" than in the pictured neighborhoodpic.twitter.com/GR6vThUNND
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comparing two neighborhoods: Ten Hills in Somerville, MA vs Maihama in Urayasu, Chiba most units in Ten Hills are duplexes or even more subdivided, whereas in Maihama it's almost entirely detached housespic.twitter.com/DdaSuTl5Rk
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Replying to @380kmh
The three-decker with a small yard still one of the best housing designs evah
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Replying to @dohertytjp
Sorry I've had way too many instances of shitty neighbors above/below me to agree
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Replying to @380kmh
Why it's better to leverage and own - so you can evict them.
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Granted that ownership is required to enjoy them in the first place, better to own something which doesn't have randos coming and going on the other floors imho
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Replying to @380kmh @dohertytjp
From the tenant's perspective too: I'd prefer to live somewhere where I'm not liable to piss off the owner just by walking a bit too heavily or having friends over
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If I owned one I'd live on the top floor. Most tenants are ok beyond that. It's too bad Somerville 3deckers are $1 million plus now
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