Can we fix this insane RENT CRISIS?! | Cities Skylines 2 Let's Play 

"The rent is too darn high!" The highest tax rate is -5%.

Tips to Fix High Rent. 1) make the low residential plots smaller. (2x2 or 3x3) 2) add welfare center 3) make public transport cheaper / free 4) make some more stone mining industries. 5) lower the fees for electricity and water Edit: all of the above fixed 99% of high rent in my city of 310K As for the single people/teens/students in a house... that's a bug that only CO can fix

Missed the Bixton series. Glad you’ve returned to the city. Will be cool to see this city go to as big a size it can go to (simulating permitting of course).

In low income areas you definitely need public transport and mixed use zones to help provide cheaper cost of living. (also a slight increase in taxes for commercial and offices would help).

Have you considered that people cannot afford the rent because you have endless residential areas without commercial? People need jobs to pay the rent. Also you may need a welfare center.

I applaud your dedication to staying vanilla in your initial build. I feel it is very important for the devs to know if a final build lives up to their expectations for the game.

Very original thumbnail btw. No hate though. Keep up the great work!

Realistic

Your low density res blocks are huge. If you just make some 2x2, your high rent complaints will diminish. They are much lower rent.

You almost hit 1B $ right at the end of the vid🎉🎉🎉

Usually my city has big population swings and that seems to bug the processor down a lot. I’m running a high end system 4090 and i9 14900k. When my simulation slows down I pause the game for a brief second and then unpause. Seems to fix the sim speed for a couple seconds until I have enough to do it again.. If the simulation breaks (aka) looks like frame by frame movement I have to save the game real quick and restart from desktop. Literally breaks the game. I do this process until all the kinks are worked out and my simulation runs again. You just have to be careful when ur city gets to a certain point when u rezone or build new neighborhoods!

Hurray!

Got high rent? Sounds like my home in Boise, Idaho.

Do you make your saved cities downloadable for others to play and expand on?

Would you consider expanding the downtown bixton area to the other side of the river. The transition from super tall sky scrapers to row housing and low density suburbs seems to quick and would love to see a more extensive/realistic downtown for how far out the map sprawls from the center city

We need a ring road/ beltway

dangit. i clicked on this video to learn about the rent problems and retained nothing. guess im watching it again lol

time for rockport

Build a posh neighborhood in Auburn using the beach front homes

So, what you are saying is that the simulation speed is more a realistic speed, traffic moves to slow and it takes forever to build a house.

I find that re-zoning the specific house with high rent to a higher density zone, bulldoze the same existing house, problem solved. In the real world developers would call this the subdivision solution haha

I would never have thought that increasing the taxes for the uneducated (who will probably be very poor) would solve high rent problems. As for public transport, if it can be used to get everywhere a person needs to go, they will not have to buy a car, which can be a significant expense. I do not know how this would translate into the game though.

What happens if you just make smaller houses?? make the grid smaller for the houses to build when placing down roads?? would that not make the houses more affordable??

what happened to the heightmap video

Seemingly nobody has a mortgage or is a cash buyer in cities skylines!

I have a city with 200k Simulation speed is worse than you can imagine

this is realistic, youre just simulating the average major city in canada 😂

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Its so weird eh

You really need to expand Bixton with few more skyscrapers.

"American realizes single-family sprawl destroys budget", alternative title xd

Expand downtown Bixton. Make it a huge downtown with even more skyscrapers

Dont expand downtown bixton

Bro you just had to build more residential areas. Demand is too high = high prices. Come on

Do you guys think he knows he can put in on three speed ?

2:50 That it literally a wealthy child living in a house in a suburb alone. I swear this game man xD How does this happen? Why aren't these people living in apartments or low rent housing?

Thought they fixed this shit... Of course they didn't actually fix it. I haven't played in 2 months