In the new Cities Skylines 2 you can build huge cities again and not only have to deal with city planning, but also keep an eye on the satisfaction of the citizens. Citizen satisfaction can be viewed using the smiley symbol at the bottom right. In addition to the general satisfaction display using the smiley symbol, the pop-up menu also shows what has a positive and negative effect on satisfaction. Here, among other things, there are things like too high taxes, poor health care and “small houses”. With the latter, the question often arises: what does that mean and how can you turn the “Small Houses” from negative to positive when it comes to satisfaction?
Bad satisfaction because of small houses?
Contrary to what was initially thought, the complaints about the “small houses” are probably not related to the fact that there are no or very few areas with small houses (i.e. houses with low density) in the city, but rather it is probably related to the land value. We’ve noticed that most of the complaints about Tiny Houses come from residents in high-density or low-cost housing who aren’t exactly top earners. After we rebuilt the city a bit so that there were high-density apartments and cheap apartments in areas with lower land values, the complaints became fewer and satisfaction levels suddenly turned from “-7 Small Houses” to “-1 Small Houses”. After a while, the complaint was no longer visible in the satisfaction display. So in summary, if satisfaction drops due to small houses, simply build high-density housing in urban areas with low land values. You can view the land value in the info views by clicking on the symbol for the residential zones.
Are there other reasons for poor satisfaction due to small houses? If anyone has discovered any other reasons for the poor satisfaction, please feel free to share your experiences here in the comments section. By the way, the topic is also discussed on platforms like Hotly debated on Reddit, where some players came to the same conclusion as written above. It’s not because of a lack of low-density housing that small houses typically have, but because of land value.
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