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The overwhelming majority of the League's population reside in apartment units which constitute more than 75% of all housing units across the League's member worlds. As the majority of League citizens reside within urban centers, high-density housing is required to support the population on the bulk of the terrestrial worlds within the League. On some worlds, such as barren, martian, ice, and water planets, apartments are mandatory as the only truly functional method of housing, based on nothing else but the nature of the planet that is being developed. As a free market economy, the League focuses on providing the private sector with as much leeway as reasonably acceptable, ensuring that market forces are responsible for increasing and plateauing the number of housing units available at anyone time. There are no rent controls, meaning that a landlord or leasing company has free reign in determining what the price of an apartment is based on the features and number of residents that are to be supported.
By law, no housing unit designated as an apartment may have less than 50 square meters, in the event that the tenant decides to marry and have a child. This was the size determined to be viable for a nuclear family to live out of until more extensive accommodations could be acquired for them. Apartments differ from individual housing units in the sense that they are "up-scalable", allowing the tenant to changing their accommodations or increase the number of additional tenants within the unit. For a 50 square meter apartment unit, no more than two persons are allowed within, unless there is a single minor involved, or two with government permission. Upon reaching the age of majority, these minors are classified as adults, and the small apartment unit is no longer legally permissible for habitation under existing federal housing laws. Given the multiracial nature of the League's population, all housing units within the union must have reasonable accommodations or modifications available for all members of the League's Core Races.
Naturally, the majority of apartments within large urban centers are more expensive than those within the less-trafficked zones of a planet's urban agglomerations. The average rent for a 50 meter apartment within the "city center" of a major urban locale was 3,500 cr, while it was about 1,250 cr for those located outside of the city center. This price increased with the number of bedrooms added to the unit, with the standard studio/1-bedroom being 3,500 cr, and increase to 4,250 for a 2-bedroom unit, and more than 5,000 for a 3-bedroom unit. As required by law, a bedroom can be no fewer than 10 square meters, and for every additional person added to the apartment unit, the unit itself must have an additional 5 square meters of space added to it, with a mandatory 5 square meters added to the unit once growing to accommodate three bedrooms in total. Thus, a three bedroom apartment within the League can be no smaller than 100 square meters under existing federal law.
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