Low Rent Housing Issue

[ExpiredHomework]

Ok so I don’t get why it wants me to build high density housing and then when I do place a low rent building (bc I don’t have high density yet) it just doesn’t collect any people inside of it. It just stays at 0 for a few months then gets about 10 households then they complain about the small houses even though they chose to move there. It gives like -19 happiness for a small room. Colossal Order wtf is this?

[archonsod]

Check the RCI indicator to see why it's pushing demand for high density. Low rent apartment blocks are naturally undesirable, cims will generally only move in if they can't afford anywhere better (so students and the unemployed primarily). Usually you'll see demand jump when you build a high school, college or university due to 'plenty of students'.

[CH13F]

i think i ve found where majority of low rent issue coming from "mostly".

if you check those houses (low density) then you ll see most of them are single child/young adult , without job and still continue education. and all of them living in that asset alone.every 3 of low rent issues of 4 i have checked has this same pattern. naturally they dont have money since they cant work.

we need free dorms for students, or at least a type of building which we can adjust fee, just like carparks. seriously how come devs skipped/ havent foreseen these issues idk. an underage kid cant live alone in a house, he cant buy nor rent it. im not even gonna question how he immigrated to city at first place.

im assuming this issue might be causing high rent issue for lowrent apartments too,

[archonsod]

Originally posted by CH13F:

we need free dorms for students, or at least a type of building which we can adjust fee

It's what low rent residential is for, and why students like it. I'm not sure making the fee adjustable would make much sense without much greater insight into how the budget works on a cim level - we don't know how much cims earn (even students seem to have some income), we don't know how those earnings break down between rent, travelling costs, service fees and goods buying. At present the best guess we have is that rent is the total land value of the square footprint of the building divided by the number of families in the building, but even if we could be precise there's no way of knowing how that corresponds to a wealth level.

im not even gonna question how he immigrated to city at first place.

Generally they don't. Teens will move out of home and look for a job/education. Lone children are usually a result of their parent(s) dying. In the case of teens their income will be determined based on the job or place of study once they've found one No idea when it comes to children since they don't accrue money or pay rent to begin with - instead they reduce the rent their family pays.

[ExpiredHomework]

Thanks for your replies to my issue! :)