Not necessarily. For individuals who want to live close to work and rent condos/apartments it could work out well (e.g. young professionals just out of college)

Not necessarily. For individuals who want to live close to work and rent condos/apartments it could work out well (e.g. young professionals just out of college). For example, West Hollywood is ranked as the most walkable city in California (by Walkscore), has a population density of ~19000 people/sqmi, is ~60% individual households, and ~80% of the housing is rented.