Population and Housing

[Bytor]

Here's something I was just thinking of:

How many people does it take to build a condo tower versus something like a three- to six-storey timber-framed building or a 5+1?

Arrow Lofts Phase II (the Bow) is 175 units is going on 5 years and it doesn't look like people are moving in yest based on what I see on the balconies.

In the neighbourhood where I grew up, Country Hills, you could take four of those bungalows and squish them together on to just three of the lots. They're all 1,000+ sq ft so that could be 5 800sqft condos or rentals on a floor. Build up 3 storeys. 15 units. That building can be finished inside of a year.

Build 5 of the each year for 5 years and you get 375 units of housing compared to Arrow-2's 175 units. More than twice as much and likely cheaper with more square feet, too. 4 a year would be 300 units, 3 a year would be 225.

Would the equivalent number of people working on a 16 storey condo like that be the number of people you'd need to build several three-storey timber-frames per year like I describe?