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This model, which reflects the fact that office buildings tend to have plumbing buried within their cores, can fit about three times as many apartments on each floor as a conventional design and shaves 25% to 35% off construction costs…. And for those in need of subsidized housing, this model makes far better use of government money: The $300,000 subsidy that builds a single low-income Denver studio could instead create 13 of these units there.
