Public Housing separate to residential zoning

[Sir Leningrad]

If public housing is desired or not depends on the homes quality. Modern public housing is quite good from my point of view. The thing is, if we provide a sum upfront, then the logical thing is that all houses from the area are going to be built using the same highly efficient design to house as much people as possible, and not look like any other "normal" neighbourhood with mixed designs.

 

[Darkath]

If public housing is desired or not depends on the homes quality. Modern public housing is quite good from my point of view. The thing is, if we provide a sum upfront, then the logical thing is that all houses from the area are going to be built using the same highly efficient design to house as much people as possible, and not look like any other "normal" neighbourhood with mixed designs.

You mean like in sweden ?

 

[Darkath]

Shouldn't public housings primary advantage be to quickly expand the population of the city by providing cheap rents in big block apartments? ( cheaper since you don't require any profit or money back on the investment )

So you as mayor front up a big lump sum to plop the grey concrete apartment complex and since the rents are cheaper then anything private builders can provide it quickly fills with new people moving in.

The people living there would still pay tax like normal ( but since they would mostly be lower class/level the tax would be less then the average resident ).

The secondary effect of this would be that it provides alot of cheap labor to dirty/manufacturing industry ( which can be taxed higher/on normal levels ).

The primary ways to stop abusing it is high costs ( it would be ridiculously expensive to have a city built with 100% government/municipally funded apartments ), and that the low rents & low level citizens are not very desired and still need the same support costs that others do ( electricity/water/infrastrucutre and so on ).

These mechanics would work better within the frame of the game I think.

Yeah that could work too.

 

[Barkydog]

I’ve just been thinking some more about the social/public housing ideas and had some more thoughts.

Some of the existing buildings from CIM1 are good examples of what could be used for social & public housing for example CIM1 had two high rise blocks of flats that look like council flats like we have over here In the UK. Even the smaller apartment blocks could be maybe utilised to provide public housing in Cities Skylines?

Another thought is certain members of the community from both here and CIMxchange forum have produced mods of buildings which could be utilised as social housing.

AshleyTayles for example did produce a very good example of social housing in mod form when he produced his British towns DLC as this featured different styles of UK council houses and bungalows.
Plus I think SpannerMonkey did produce his own excellent social housing DLC with the Maisonettes he had as a DLC?

If both members were asked & agreeable could these DLC’s be used as additional social housing in Cities Skylines?

My point is both these and the existing buildings the flats etc. From CIM1 could make good social housing so you have the option to design your public housing estates with as much care as you would for other areas of residential housing.
So that way you have happy tenants/residents and everyone gets a place to live and the players get the challenge of designing and creating functioning public housing estates.

As I wouldn’t just plop the buildings down randomly I like others here might take care to place roads and amenities for the tenants since well-designed estates get less crime and happier tenants but then you have to balance that both with your budgets and the waiting lists of tenants wanting to move into the area.

Plus with a well-designed estate you could add small shopping areas and earn rent from the businesses there so things like convenience stores and chemists could pay you rent to run a shop since their income comes from your tenants.

Yes you might need a semblance of a social security system to help tenants with the rent if they are unemployed or in low paid jobs. But you might also need to provide housing benefits to other tenant groups such as pensioners as well as those who are sick or disabled.

Lots of people might need social housing at some point so another challenge would be to provide suitable types of housing to different tenant types. For some tenants they have a young family so need a two or three bedroom house, the pensioner might need a bungalow, someone who is sick or disabled might need an adapted flat or bungalow while single tenants and couples might be happy with a flat. So you as the city housing Department would need to maybe budget for this in your building process and budget.

I hope my ideas/thoughts might be of some help.

 

[Quaade]

could make for a ghetto city we have something similar to Sweden in Denmark. But a cool feature to add in, since this is a problem most larger cities have, how to handle ghettos.

 

[Sir Leningrad]

Well funded public housing also for more spending and better life levels, so I was thinking people who live there should have more available cash (more low price shopping) but also lower health problems and maybe get a better educational effect. On the other hand, badly funded public housing should increase health hazards, increase crime, and lower education effects.