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460 Columbia St W | 12 + 12 + 12 fl | U/C
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(07-26-2019, 01:16 PM)MidTowner Wrote: The housing bubble bursting in the States certainly made a lot of people more amenable to renting. Perhaps it will do the same year.

What do you mean by "single purpose housing"? This is a residential building; it is not multi-use.

Single purpose housing is stronger than than non-multi-use. Basically housing that's targeted (and suitable exclusively for) one group of people, say students, or low income individuals.

Sometimes it's necessary (dorms on a campus are obviously only suitable for students, a seniors centre has facilities and support making it targeted for seniors) but most housing in an area should be flexible enough to support anyone who wants to live there, a building like this shouldn't be targeted at students exclusively, for one, any demographic shift may leave a housing problem, for another, concentrating all one group of people in one place leads to other social problems.
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RE: 460 Columbia St. W. | 12 + 12+12fl | U/C? - by danbrotherston - 07-26-2019, 06:22 PM

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