I want every big box store and strip mall in America to be obligated to build enough housing on top and above as it would take to staff the store and their families at a minimum.
Oh no doubt. The actual staff wouldn't have to live there. They'd just have to have that much housing built up over the stores.
But also thinking strip malls that are often filled with small stores already owned and operated by a family. They'd only need one or two units overhead, thus being close to as described in the original post.
Its a neat idea. A lot of their workers are kids or youngings living with folks anyway. Gives a option for workers with fewer options. Depending how its played gives people not working there affordable options maybe?
Yeah, but I'm still glad to see those over the sprawling parking lot retail district approach we've been using everywhere for decades in the US. Maybe we'll do a better job on the revision when the ones you described start to fail lol, one can dream!
I think inspectors in NJ already started cracking down on those constructions after a nasty fire. Those things are all stick construction for speed and cheapness. Minimum concrete.