How is low-rent zoning supposed to work? Mine always close down due to too high land value.

[E-Girl Bongwater]

Genuinely cannot understand how this is supposed to work. I get that gentrification is a massive issue in this game, and you need to keep land value low for affordable rent, but no matter what I do my low-rent zonings always go under. When I inspect them in the land value view, they are red (the lowest) and the buildings around them aren't very high value either. So why do they always close down?

I've even tried placing them far away from any other zonings, completely alone, and they STILL close down within the same amount of time. Once I demo them the demand for low-rent housing instantly fills up again and the cycle repeats. Honestly, the land value mechanic in this game just feels like utter trash IMO overall.

[darth blart maul cop]

unfortunately it's because the game is broken fundamentally in a lot of different ways and this is just another instance of that.

[『Insperatus』]

For low rent housing you are suppose to build plots of property either by 2(w)x3(l) or 3x3 or 2x2 so they wont be abandoned by high rent. Moving low rent income folks into a large plot of land is why they go broke so quick for paying high rent.

Eventually when they get educated or when their children take over the household, then increase the plots of property for them to increase the housing size.

Originally posted by darth blart maul cop:

unfortunately it's because the game is broken fundamentally in a lot of different ways and this is just another instance of that.

gitgud ohnoes.

[Ghostrider]

One thing I had seen from a recent Biffa video, is he had found out that making lots too big, mainly for residential would tend to give the high rent issue. He found that making the zones the old 4 deep made the issue not appear as much.

[[6thAL]Vol.kaboki]

But what is the point of the “low rent highrise zoning(projects)? They are always the first ones to get abandoned, because of high rent, doesnt make sense…

[banzaimonkey]

I haven't seen land value in the tooltips, but I have seen "rent is too high" complaints.

Personal wealth is the main driver of this. You can try lowering taxes and using the welfare office to support lower income housing. You may also need to make sure public transit is available so people can get to work. If they don't have a job they won't be able to pay rent. Increasing housing supply may also help.

If your city is full of low wealth retired people you'll be stuck for a bit until they age out. Because they don't work and thus have no income, their wealth will only decrease over time.

Originally posted by Ghostrider:

Biffa ... found out that making lots too big, mainly for residential would tend to give the high rent issue. He found that making the zones the old 4 deep made the issue not appear as much.

Interesting! I didn't realize this made a difference, but it makes sense. Great tip!

[CH13F]

low rent housing for low wealth ,medium density prefering pop, i usually prefer 5x5 5x6 apartment blocks of 100 to 120 tenants. these apartments dont like to be near eachother, if they re then rent gets high and they start complaining, so i prefer to pepper them inside normal medium density apartments here and there.

make sure NOT to build more than 2 of them near eachother.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by banzaimonkey:

I haven't seen land value in the tooltips, but I have seen "rent is too high" complaints.

Personal wealth is the main driver of this. You can try lowering taxes and using the welfare office to support lower income housing. You may also need to make sure public transit is available so people can get to work. If they don't have a job they won't be able to pay rent. Increasing housing supply may also help.

If your city is full of low wealth retired people you'll be stuck for a bit until they age out. Because they don't work and thus have no income, their wealth will only decrease over time.

Originally posted by Ghostrider:

Biffa ... found out that making lots too big, mainly for residential would tend to give the high rent issue. He found that making the zones the old 4 deep made the issue not appear as much.

Interesting! I didn't realize this made a difference, but it makes sense. Great tip!

No worries, it does make it more thoughtful on how many large and small lots there should be and where they should be situated.

[Daveyboy]

I've just been ignoring the high-density res demand. I've not unlocked high-density res yet only the low rent apartments and whenever I zone that, initially a load of people move in (wealthy people, despite them supposedly being cheap apartments) and then they eventually abandon them due to high rent (despite them supposedly being "low rent").
So haven't really figured out exactly how the low-rent apartments are meant to be used. It could be that it's unlocked too early and makes more sense in a larger city. I don't want to zone them out in the middle of nowhere away from services as that's not where they'd be in real life. So I've been ignoring it and just using the other res zoning types.

[Stormsoul]

I have been having success putting low-rent units near college/university, treating them as student dorms. They fill the demand quickly and stay full/mostly full and seem to even encourage more enrollment in higher education.