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High density housing bad and dystopian. Homelessness good. Now build more single family homes with lawns pls. /s
Low-rise to mid-rise high-density housing, sure, but high-rises are bad, yes. They cost more to maintain, they either prevent adequate sunlight at lower levels or need to be spaced apart wide enough to defeat the point, and they tend to be worse for social isolation and anti-social behaviour.
High rises give way to urban density and walkable neighborhoods. Any costs in maintenance is easily offset by freeing hundreds of people from the costs of car ownership, medical costs due to sedentary lifestyles in unwalkable suburbs, provide more affordable and accessible community funded childcare, better access to healthy foods than in food deserts enforced by zoning, and reduction in homelessness related crimes.
Nothing is more socially isolating than car-centric suburban hell where anyone too young or too old to drive are deemed ineligible to leave their house independently and participate in society. Nothing creates anti-social behavior like forcing homelessness and desperation onto people who cannot afford to live in cities that are lacking in affordable public housing.
Speaking as someone who has lived in both urban highrise public housing and suburban hells in different parts of the world, the most socially isolating experience by far has been living in car-depedent suburbs with piss poor public transit, especially as someone who cannot drive often. Every will eventually become disabled and cannot drive. It's just a matter of when. When that time comes, you better hope you can afford a retirement home or to have someone drive you, because if you can't, you're stuck right where you are. And that times sooner the less walking you find the time to do in a day.
Walkable neighbourhoods with excellent public transport are perfectly (and I would bet more cost-effectively) possible with low and mid rises as you can with high rises. Good examples are Barcelona and Paris.
America's weird zoning laws are a problem unto themselves. Here in the Old World it's perfectly normal to have a row of shops and cafes and whatnot in the middle of the suburbs or on the bottom floors of a block of flats. That is the biggest factor in creating walkable neighbourhoods.
Edit: I accidentally a word.
low rise and mid rise are ugly as hell compared to densely packed high rise buildings or single family homes
Have to agree to disagree. Most of the prettiest areas of London consist of Edwardian mansion blocks and Georgian terraces.