There’s a Cities Skylines 2 high rent issue where Cims begin complaining about how they can’t afford their monthly housing payments. You can try to lower the tax rate on residential properties and construct medium or high-density properties that are more affordable, but no matter what you do, it feels like the complaints over high rent don’t stop. At the same time, low-density housing is the only thing that citizens care about and yet most of the people complaining about rent might be wealthy. Here are some ways to get rid of the high rent complaints in Cities Skylines 2 for PC.
How to stop Cities Skylines 2 high rent complaints
To stop Cims from making high rent complaints in Cities Skylines 2, here are some methods that you can try:
- Drop fees for water and electricity – As one user on Reddit says, dropping the fee for these utilities made a large amount of high rent complaints disappear
- Ignore low-density housing demand – The demand for low-density residential is very high in this simulation, but you don’t need to satisfy it. In fact, building more of these will only make the high rent situation worse.
- Build colleges and universities – Once you do, you can begin having a highly-educated workforce who tend to increase demand for medium and high-density areas. Over time, this will lower the complaints over high rent.
In general, an uneducated workforce can’t afford the expensive homes in the suburbs, which is why they complain about high rents. By making high-density housing more attractive through proper zoning and making sure that land value doesn’t rise too high, you can gradually convince people to live in apartments.
You’ll also want to make sure that when you tile low-density housing that you keep their lot size small so that they are as affordable as possible. Also check on the building with the complaints, because sometimes the person it’s coming from is a child living in the building alone.
For more Cities Skylines 2 guides, here’s how to make sure your businesses have enough customers and how to fix a lack of labor.
