Comment on Housing crisis: Are you prepared to wait 6 months to rent a studio in Paris? | Euronews
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months agoYou can’t increase supply. There’s nowhere to build in Paris.
Tokyo is the most populous city on the planet with like 3x the population of Paris, and yet it’s remarkably affordable. Why? It’s easy af to build there. Japan has a simple, nationwide zoning code that makes it extremely easy and streamlined to build new housing.
Clearly Tokyo has found the room. Paris has plenty of room.
Tokyo density 6 200 / km²
Paris density 20 000 / km²
Tokyo may be larger, but you’re comparing two very different things.
You’re comparing only the cities proper. A better comparison is urban areas, i.e., the contiguous built-up regions, as stats for cities proper are skewed by the arbitrariness of municipal boundaries and stats for metropolitan areas are skewed by often encompassing large amounts of rural areas.
To compare urban area densities:
Maybe, but people want to live in Paris. Not in the urban area.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Up
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That would work, but it isn’t allowed. So the only option at the moment would be down.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 months ago
old cities and building down do not mix. All kinds of undocumented stuff under there, not to mention historical sites like les catacombes
raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
It also make build up more complex: you want the ground to be stable and not have undocumented holes.