Apartments costs as much per square feet as detached houses in the same neighborhoods. People overwhelmingly prefer to live closer to stuff and smaller if we lo

Apartments costs as much per square feet as detached houses in the same neighborhoods. People overwhelmingly prefer to live closer to stuff and smaller if we look at what they actually pay for, so in Sweden we build a lot of neighborhoods with enough density that you can have all services within walking distance. Therefore such neighborhoods in Sweden are very cheap compared to USA. And it isn't a lack of space to build, Sweden is less population dense than USA. Lots of people still live away from things in detached houses, those doesn't disappear just because we give others the option to not live like that. And you know, thanks to most people living in denser areas most things aren't that far away from the detached homes either, they benefit from density too.