Free housing?

[76561198051514398]

The housing system does seem a bit off, on both of my islands that I've dedicated a lot of time to, I've build many apartments and tenements, yet most stay empty despite homelessness.

It would seem that people need jobs now in order to have homes, but I think this is a bad decision.

In Tropico 5, I could have 800 unemployed people, but they'd still be living in 90 housing quality apartments, which is a good thing because it's a testament to the success of your island. In Tropico 4/5 you could basically have a Marxist paradise where most of the money-making in automated and all of your citizens still live in excellent conditions, this seems to not be the case in Tropico 6 but I may just be wrong and not have a full understanding of the systems yet.

[Kunovega]

The only option currently for "free" housing is to change the mode on the bunkhouse to cram in more people, it reduces the wealth requirement to the point that even people without jobs can live in them

Also the child allowances edit will help working families aquire better housing while its running as the children will no longer be a burden on income so that working families with kids can maintain a comparative home more easily, unfortunately when it runs out those families go back to the wealth tier lower than they were and lose the better housing

The entire wage and housing system is absolutely horrible, even worse than 5 was (and that was bad). The granularity of pay and housing costs was much better in the earlier games (1 through 4)

[Skybreaker]

Hi everybody,
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[YEOLDEDRAGON]

Communist-conventillos(kind of a communal ollective villa-concept, likely taken from Cuba), takes in broke individuals, for one. But they do need alot of repairs, in the run.

[jlking3rd]

Originally posted by BLOODAXE:

Communist-conventillos(kind of a communal ollective villa-concept, likely taken from Cuba), takes in broke individuals, for one. But they do need alot of repairs, in the run.

The convetillo has its origin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, starting in the late 19th century. At the time Argentina had a rapidly growing economy and European immigrants flocked to the country. Most of the new immigrants were from Italy and Spain, although many nationalities and races were present. Classical Liberalism laissez faire ideas still held sway in Argentina well into the 20th century and the new hastily constructed housing were all privately owned.

The notable cultural contribution of the coventillo is the Tango. Born in the red light districts of Buenos Aires, the dance was adopted by the decent people living in the conventillo (they were poor, but very moral family orientated people) and was nurtured in the common court yards before spreading to the rest of the nation and the world.