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Density is bad for ownership. You don't own the land, you have no control over maintenance costs and end up subjected to huge fees. I've been hit 3 years in a row, 7k, 50k, and 16k. I owned a house for 20 years and never had these kinds of costs, the highest was my roof repair and replacing our fence which was 20k total. This was a decently sized property with an in ground swimming pool. To top it off, the bills didn't even address the maintenance of my own apt. Fuck density, good for the rich, shitty for everyone else.
I dunno the status quo of reserving 80% of our major cities for multimillion dollar detached homes seems pretty good for the rich. I think densifying these areas to provide cheaper housing would be better for the "everyone else."