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Luxury and affordable buildings only differ by the rent they charge. The quality of the building is determined by building codes

• nine_k 5y ago
  The size and shape of rooms, hallways, stairways, elevators (if we're talking about high-rises), the quality of installed windows, quality and presence of a centralized HVAC, etc, certainly depend on the "luxury level" of a building. Building codes set the lower bounds of acceptable quality of a building, which is good but not all-encompassing (and for a good reason).
• asiachick 5y ago
  Plenty of people in Hong Kong and Japan live comfortably and happily in apartmetns as small as 300-400 sqft where as in many cities in the west such small apartments are not allowed. That's a building code issue. You can't build cheaper housing because of the code. Similarly in many areas house require garages or parking space and front yards of a certain size by law. Again, housing codes dicate whether you can make something cheaper or not.