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The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords

arstechnica.com The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords

It was getting so bad, people were actually suggesting building more homes.

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Recently it has been disclosed that the dev team have added a new member
- every time i see that picture i always think of city planner plays :D
Ok, but my rent is too high in real life. Can those developers nuke MY landlord?
Forgive my ignorance, but an apartment where the landlord is removed and people just pay building maintenance is... a condominium, no?
- If they don’t individually own the property but pay for upkeep and there is no landlord… that’s a housing cooperative, no?
  
  I grew up in a community co-op! It was so great
- It's more like co-owning. Both the owner and the HOA own the property. But at least with my HOA the agreement is they handle everything outside my walls, I handle everything inside.
  
  I didn’t know about the co-ownership. That makes HOA stories make more sense.
- If they don’t individually own the property but pay for upkeep and there is no landlord… that’s a housing cooperative, no?
  
  Squatter mansion.
- Depends who owns it / who payed to have it constructed. If the tenets own it and payed to have it constructed, or payed someone who payed someone... Then it's a condo or a co-op depending on whether you own a unit in the building or own x% of the building which entitles you to a unit.
  
  If another organization, almost always some form of government, payed to have it constructed and owns it then it is public housing.
  
  If it's anything like cities skylines original, houses just pop up according to demand with seemingly no construction cost calculated, probably because it would add a ton more complexity with mortgages and speculative markets etc. for little gain to players who mostly just want to play with trains and metros.
  
  Tenants, fyi
It's time to have life imitate art.
I would have preferred to have it solvable through policy or something. A giant business, with high earning employees would of course raise the average rent if not regulated. I find it rather amusing, that it actually happened in the game as well without being explicitly build in.
- My thoughts exactly. Although. Reality is often stranger than fiction. So who knows what’s coming next for us 😆
I keep forgetting that that's an option
- Did Sir want their slice of landlord rare? And with or without mint sauce on the side…
  
  Interesting note in this mint sauce recipe.
- Ask the sovereign citizens at !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world how that works out.
I can't wait until this game is released
- Same. I hear the early access has been rough.
  
  I'm ready to buy once things work properly.
  
  I just hope it makes it out of development hell unlike Kerbal Space Program 2
Haha...haha...ha....
Making people in society feel like they own nothing and are getting milked by those few who do own everything is a good way to see things break down, it's happening real time, we're watching it right now in the US.
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