Housing Happiness

[OldGamer]

How is this determined?
I am building houses like nobodies business. Put all the budgets up. But still I have homeless people and lower than 40.
Do you have to have all the other things with it...so public service, entertainment, beauty etc?

Really hard to build housing estates in this tropico I feel, especially without the edict that seems to be amiss in the second mission!

[Jet City Gambler]

Beauty makes a big difference. If you click on some of the homeless shacks they have decent housing quality just because it's a nice area.

Build gardens around your high-end housing to bump the quality up. Air conditioning makes a big difference in lower-end housing like tenements.

[Vermillion Cardinal]

Not at my PC atm, but I believe only mansions are affected by local beauty.

Can't tell exactly how it's calculated, but the usual stuff applies:

Are you building the right housing for the income bracket you're targeting? Pretty sure you know this already, but lots of apartments won't house the poor without the free housing edict. It's also a waste to put the rich in bunkhouses.

Housing type also matters. You can get high numbers housing everyone, but even more if your basic housing is no less than a fully upgraded tenement on its alternate work mode.

Upgrades like electrification certainly help. Work modes for tenements and bonuses from the same via structures like metro stations, fast food joints, and fire stations count.

Make sure housing is relatively close to workplaces so people don't decide to build shacks to avoid the commute.

For students and retirees, bunkhouses on "Stack them Higher" and conventillos on "Let it Rot". Not as good, but better than the streets.

Paying better wages to workers; when most people are well-off and can afford an apartment at minimum the average should rise. You could just give free housing, but that's a waste of state money.

Not sure that services availability affects housing happiness, only that it does reduce time spent looking for them.

I've never really bothered with mansions beyond a token few for amusement purposes; the filthy rich are just as content living in apartments and modern apartments.

[DayReaper]

First of all check for homeless people. Shacks have very low housing quality, so you want to get those people out of there. Usually people are living in shacks because they are poor or they are studying , so try to get them into employment so they can afford rent. Check available jobs in the almanach. Are there enough free jobs? If yes the people most likey dont have the right education. So build another 1-2 highschools aswell. Another reason why people move into shacks is that people dont like to walk a long time to their job. So check in which location all houses are clustered with tennants and build some extra houses there.

If that is done try to upgrade and electrify the houses so they get better housing qualitiy.

After while the housing happiness will start to rise.

[OldGamer]

I think I am going to have to start again as I have no money. But I thank for all the help to build a better Tropico next time! I think it was the jobs, I had no schools, but a lot of unemployed uneducated people too, so I was building mines for them to work. I think I over spent intially, whilst thinking it would all pay off, it didn't. Sugar/rum market in the second mission pays out very little and Gold wasn't cutting it neither.

[OldGamer]

Originally posted by Aturchomicz:

Originally posted by OldGamer:

I think I am going to have to start again as I have no money. But I thank for all the help to build a better Tropico next time! I think it was the jobs, I had no schools, but a lot of unemployed uneducated people too, so I was building mines for them to work. I think I over spent intially, whilst thinking it would all pay off, it didn't. Sugar/rum market in the second mission pays out very little and Gold wasn't cutting it neither.

Theres always the nuke and state loans edict to fix the island up smh

But hwen those edicts are still not researched. I am struggling on this second mission. It's because they've built too much ♥♥♥♥♥ and Gold doesn't do nada. And too much to build early on, it asks you to build things too quickly with timelimits. But all guides I have read on it, says its easy...perhaps I am overthinking this...