Would constructing residences with a single staircase make housing extra inexpensive?

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Michael Eliason was an undergraduate finding out structure at Virginia Tech College when he went to reside for a yr in Germany. Whereas interning in Freiburg in 2003, he labored on initiatives together with condominium buildings 4 or 5 tales tall. After returning to the US and graduating, Eliason started his structure profession in Seattle, the place he quickly seen that each one the buildings he labored on saved getting “larger and larger.” It felt to him “like the precise reverse of my expertise working in Germany.”