You don’t necessarily need a full kitchen and bath in each unit–a toilet and kitchenette plus a larger shared kitchen and bath can work and will certainly lower the rent charged. There are a lot of brand new places going up that are doing just this.
It’s not the size of the room, it’s the number of drains. Nobody is building with shared bathrooms in downtown Boston, but even if they did, they would still need to increase capacity to account for showers on every floor.
You don’t necessarily need a full kitchen and bath in each unit–a toilet and kitchenette plus a larger shared kitchen and bath can work and will certainly lower the rent charged. There are a lot of brand new places going up that are doing just this.
It’s not the size of the room, it’s the number of drains. Nobody is building with shared bathrooms in downtown Boston, but even if they did, they would still need to increase capacity to account for showers on every floor.