Residential buildings unhappy with "small homes" debuff

[Le Mauricien]

My residential low wage housing buildings, the large buildings, are all unhappy with "small homes" debuff and it's a pretty serious debuff too! -16!

What is that supposed to mean. I mean they are low wage housing in a big building. Does it mean I need to build more houses for them to move out?

[ExavierMacbeth]

I think that just means they are unhappy living in 400 sqft apartments and want to move out as soon as possible.

I have yet to get one of those low rent apartments to stick around very long... as soon as i zone new residental of any type they empty out, go abandoned, and eventually get removed until my housing demand skyrockets again and the apartments are rebuilt.

[Le Mauricien]

It's an odd mechanic to have things designed to just empty out and go empty...
I was thinking it's possible to offset the debuff with a ton of positive things. Mail, Internet, Radio, Education nearby and so on. I'm still trying. So far no luck.

[Morgan Bateson]

Just subbing this because I was just wondering why they complain about small homes. Don't move in there then! lol

[Elban]

anything new? I can just build small houses,and if they want medium they just abandon it even tho I have parks, busses, mail, radio and so on

[Solitaire]

Got this problem too, -16 in large buildings, dont know why at all but not all my buildings are like this only some of them

[Molybdane]

It makes sense though. These buildings offer and ungodly ability to stack population on a small footprint, so something has to give.

Originally posted by Le Mauricien:

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I was thinking it's possible to offset the debuff with a ton of positive things. Mail, Internet, Radio, Education nearby and so on. I'm still trying. So far no luck.

This has been my approach as well, and it's been successful. But I've been building a lot of medium density as well. That makes me think that the housing market in my city, for lack of a better word, is overpriced, and people can't afford to move out into the low density suburbs, because the cannot afford it.

[Dukes]

I think its more to do with education. I had this issue until I had a college and then the demand for apartments went up, this also goes hand in hand with the large style apartments and low rent ones. Basically educate people and make sure you have both high rise apartments unlocked and only build low rent ones to begin with and they should stop abandoning the buildings, My rent level is 11-13 % for reference

[Thrice]

Im having issues even with college. TONS of room all around my city, most of my residential areas arent developing. But I still get this debuff>

[aHOLMAN]

I have a similar problem, I don't get abandoned buildings. But I can't even get one single high densiity building to get to level 5. They all have complaints about small homes even when they have like a total of +40 in other stats...
The issue is I only have High density residential demand, so I can't even give them "bigger" homes as there is not demand at all for it and I'm not sure how to create this demand.
Am I missing something obvious?
Maybe my taxes are too low and it creates this situation? All taxes at 3% because I make so much money I have been capped at 2 billion for ages now. I could probably give everyone -10% taxes at this point...

[Stealthy]

Small homes can be countered with other positive things like mail, internet, low taxes, low utilities etc. As long as the scale tips to positive, they will live there. I got large chunk of these buildings and they are full.

Until I build better units with larger homes in them, then these units will empty out.

Take your time, all buildings don't get filled instantly and when they level up, they also get more capacity. Unoccupied buildings mean empty apartments, not full buildings. So as long as you got empty homes, that will reduce demand meter.

[Lord Sauron]

See also https://steamcommunity.com/app/949230/discussions/0/4031347929696719733/

[General Zod ™]

There's a few things that need fixing.
1. Wealthy but can't afford to pay their RENT even on low rent homes? Makes no sense.
2. Small Homes. They move into something they hate but they stay. The -10 is HUGE!!!! Why?
3. Garbage-It works sometimes but as city grows big you have ARMIES of dump truck that seems to pass by every home that needs pickup.
4. Land Value - So you're building and now everything is red. Now what? Start a new town? I mean it's as if residentials get smacked up badly by the RED not suitable bs.

To be honest there's so much more but I'm tired of no updates.

I keep hoping something happens soon. I really love this game but at this point it's just so unfinished like a BETA.

3rd MAP, now smaller city, already stuttering again. Last city reached 900k population, this ones stuttering on 100k, so what now?

[Lukinsons]

Originally posted by cybohmoob:

There's a few things that need fixing.
1. Wealthy but can't afford to pay their RENT even on low rent homes? Makes no sense.
2. Small Homes. They move into something they hate but they stay. The -10 is HUGE!!!! Why?
3. Garbage-It works sometimes but as city grows big you have ARMIES of dump truck that seems to pass by every home that needs pickup.
4. Land Value - So you're building and now everything is red. Now what? Start a new town? I mean it's as if residentials get smacked up badly by the RED not suitable bs.

To be honest there's so much more but I'm tired of no updates.

I keep hoping something happens soon. I really love this game but at this point it's just so unfinished like a BETA.

3rd MAP, now smaller city, already stuttering again. Last city reached 900k population, this ones stuttering on 100k, so what now?

totally agree...got same problems with big city

[MolesMakeMountains]

Originally posted by cybohmoob:

To be honest there's so much more but I'm tired of no updates.

I feel your pain, but to be fair, we just had basically two weeks of holidays and nothing gets done then. Even if developers are working, there won't be a release, and CO was clear about that. CO also said they are now working on fixing some big issues, so they can't do weekly updates. Personally, I'm looking forward to the next update, which I hope will fix some of the more serious issues: garbage, wonky traffic, elementary schools, etc.