Publicly funded homes for the poor cost $1.2M each to build

3 ivewonyoung 3 6/6/2025, 6:36:49 PM washingtonpost.com ↗

Comments (3)

WalterGR · 21h ago
“Homes” in this context means apartments, not single-family homes.

Further, emphasis mine:

> D.C. apartment buildings exemplify a national trend, as the costs of affordable housing approach and sometimes exceed $1 million per unit in cities that also include San Francisco and Chicago.

Cherry-picking high cost-of-living cities.

How much does it cost per unit to build apartments for the non-poor?

josephcsible · 21h ago
> “Homes” in this context means apartments, not single-family homes.

Doesn't this make it even worse? Isn't the entire value proposition of apartments supposed to be that they'd have a cheaper per-unit cost than single-family homes?

WalterGR · 20h ago
What’s the cost of constructing a single-family home in the same neighborhoods as in the article?