I’ll add to this family-sized apartments. US building requirements steer developers to studios and 1-beds and make it very hard to fit good 3-bed layouts on a floorplate and away from smaller buildings of any size. A lot of it, actually, comes down to egress requirements that don’t allow point-access blocks. Read more here: https://www.larchlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Larch-Lab-PAB_Policy-Brief.pdf
I’ll add to this family-sized apartments. US building requirements steer developers to studios and 1-beds and make it very hard to fit good 3-bed layouts on a floorplate and away from smaller buildings of any size. A lot of it, actually, comes down to egress requirements that don’t allow point-access blocks. Read more here: https://www.larchlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Larch-Lab-PAB_Policy-Brief.pdf