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INTRODUCTION

Differently than Europe, Latin America didn't face a conjuctural housing crisis after World War 2. The issue with homeleness in the region was very much historical and structural and for long tolerated by governments in the region. It was the Cold War getting hotter that got the public pressure on the issue high - right-wing governments adopted public housing to dissuade the working class from joining socialist parties, while leftist governments had to keep up with the ambitious housing goals that they have set up during their rise to power.

Most countries in the region lacked the resources for major residential complexes so, in many cases, those 2-3 stories tenement buildings were favoured - cheap and easy to build.

This pack, therefore, is your typical suburban latin-american prefab tenement building that began gaining popularity in government housing projects in the late 50's and 60's onwards. Those buildings sprawled in the region and are still very much present in the working-class neighborhoods. The architectural style is modern. The flats are pretty small, from 36 to 44 square meters, with little privacy... but they're solid enough and are certainly better than not having adequate housing for the people.

GAMEPLAY

This set is comprised of 4 small tenement buildings ranging from 12 to 56 workers and 70-76% housing quality.

Each building has 9 skins, including the base one - remember to download the skins mods!

I hope you all enjoy!
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gonzaldd 29 Apr, 2023 @ 3:03pm 
Beautiful, very well made. :steamthumbsup:
Vandeco  [author] 25 Apr, 2023 @ 7:39pm 
@TheFunKat, finishing here...

It is pretty use to mod housing quality, though. For this mod, go to your steamapps\workshop\content\784150\2960779969 and open each "tenement" folder and then edit the "$QUALITY_OF_LIVING" value in each "building" text file. The same procedure (but in their own specific folders) will work with other mods. If you have any doubts please feel free to ask!


Finally, my most downloaded mod is the one with the houses with even lower housing quality, so I think that the overall "small" popularity of my mods is just due to the fact that most of the player base consists of europeans who are already contemplated in the vanilla game and in 99% of the mods in the workshop. That's perfectly understandable and I'm ok with it (I was also a modder of Latam buildings for Sim City 4).

Again, thank you for the honest feedback and for apreceating my mods! Look out for my future uploads
Vandeco  [author] 25 Apr, 2023 @ 7:34pm 
@TheFunKat, olá amigo! First of all, very much for you comment!

Currently I'm finishing some shops and civil service buildings, but higher quality (80-100) is on my roadmap.

I'm not considering increasing the housing quality of this and other cheap housing. To be clear, in my opinion, the vanilla buildings housing quality is weird... pretty much every housing has around 90%. If all the buildings share this same stat, then what's the difference between them, besides aesthestics? That's my intent with my mods! Make the difference between cheap and expensive housing have a real impact on gameplay! Sure, you can give well-off apartments to everyone, but this will cost a lot. On the other hand, if you want an affordable housing project you will have to accept some unhapiness.

And also, frankly speaking, even with minor improvements, no one is gonna be have a confortable life living in a 40m2 flat with a family of 3 adults and God knows how many kids and elderly people.
TheFunCat 25 Apr, 2023 @ 11:36am 
Man, could you Please Please Please make a more expensive version with higher housing quality?

This is such a beautiful work! What a shame they have such low housing quality! I don't use any of your mods because of the low housing quality. A very important game metric is to maximize citizen's happiness and these constructions play heavily against you as player. I would guess the low popularity of your LATAM series is because of that.

Besides (a fellow LATAM inhabitant here) in my experience, housing quality in LATAM is highly improved by doing small modifications to the building such as air-conditioning, better flooring, better painting, better-looking windows and doors, and appliances. As long as the building is built with good foundations (sturdy walls and roofs), the housing quality is low because its inhabitants are poor, not the other way around. Unfortunately, the game does not account for this, so you are stuck with low housing quality.