Eli5 Who decides what houses are built?

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When your in a suburb you always see rows of houses of course those houses can be custom built but there are so many that I wonder does the city choose if they are built sometimes?thanks in advance for your answers

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When a developer is building a new subdivision, one of the ways they keep costs down is by limiting customer options so they can buy and build in bulk. As part of that, they usually have a list of four or five floorplans people can pick from. Those can be modified a little within certain parameters (3-car vs 2-car garage, extra sunroom on the back, different trim types, and so on), but that’s how you end up with hundreds of similar-looking houses in a large development like that.

(Source: I live on a cul-de-sac where both my next door and across-the-street neighbors’ houses are functionally identical to mine).

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