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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It depends. Some houses are built by the people living in them afterwards or renting them out. These are often each fairly individual buildings.

Lots of suburbs however are built by a single developer (a company building houses and selling them), which of course aims to cut costs where possible. So they build the same house lots of times (only one plan that needs to be made and approved, materials are cheaper in bulk, etc.). These might get customised over the years by the buyers, so they don’t look exactly the same anymore years / decades later.

Sometimes the city itself build the houses as well, but these are then often operated by the city instead of being sold (public housing)

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