For most people, this is a rather silly discussion.
If you live in a highly urbanized area of Germany (Example: Bremen, Koln, Berlin, Hamburg, etc)....there's this Green Party discussion going on that if there is open property existing (say a forty-acre speculative farm property on the edge of Bremen), and some building effort is mounted....the priority or approval should be tied to it being entirely multi-family residences. This means six to ten apartment buildings on the forty acres that would house 1,000 families.....and NOT 120 private residences housing 120 families.
How you'd rack and stack this priority? You'd have an approval process which has various approval authorities....who mandate multi-family residences for urban development.
If you had real money for a single family residence? You'd go beyond the city boundary, and look for distant towns with some rail connection to the city you work in.
Urbanized cities then grow with urbanized designed living spaces. The single-family concept continues....just beyond the grip of the city planners.
I sat and watched some 'propaganda' piece three years ago, where some environmental-friendly planners were 'selling' the idea of apartment buildings over single-family residences. In their mind, societies thrives in apartment living.
The blunt truth? If you went to a hundred families living in structured apartment living today.....they'd all point out the negatives and paint the scene where you have to deal with people who aren't in your economic class or working class.
Making this a policy of an entire city? That's the weird part of this trend. Presently, most communities are looking at projects and limiting this trend toward multi-family situations (it's not full-scale, at least not yet).
Family-flight? If you look over the next twenty years.....it'll an interesting period when compacted and urbanized living turns into something pretty negative, and 'magnet-communities' start to exist for families.
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