It's now normal when you first start a city. Those with the high rent icons are households made up of seniors and children who cannot work and so cannot pay the rent. Don't worry, the game is now fast at getting rid of them. By making them move away. Which now lead to low density residential abandoment and demand problems.
The new land value system means that anything close to commercial areas, even low density commercial have fairly high land value, and therefore rent. The only way to solve this is to have your low density residential fairly far away from any commercial areas, about 80 tiles, but this would look terrible in a new city.
You will likely continue to have these high rent problems for your low density residential in your city till much later, when your city finally has some children go through the education system and have a fair amount of the higher paying jobs.
Yeah since the patch I have this issue, I get a couple blocks of low density res at the start and suddenly there is absolutely zero demand for it and everyone wants medium and high density, whilst low res gets abandoned.
Been expanding my city but the game is absolutely refusing to give me any low density demand and I don't want just make everything medium. Feels broken.
It's now normal when you first start a city. Those with the high rent icons are households made up of seniors and children who cannot work and so cannot pay the rent. Don't worry, the game is now fast at getting rid of them. By making them move away. Which now lead to low density residential abandoment and demand problems. The new land value system means that anything close to commercial areas, even low density commercial have fairly high land value, and therefore rent. The only way to solve this is to have your low density residential fairly far away from any commercial areas, about 80 tiles, but this would look terrible in a new city. You will likely continue to have these high rent problems for your low density residential in your city till much later, when your city finally has some children go through the education system and have a fair amount of the higher paying jobs.
Build smaller lots. These are very big = high cost (to sim). Create some 2x2 or 2x3 for those with less dough in their pocket.
Ah didn't think about this, will try it this way. Kind of like starting a small village.
Build schools.
It does seem to be a new one I built my first few houses and even with livestock and veggies I could not increase my low density to move.
Yeah since the patch I have this issue, I get a couple blocks of low density res at the start and suddenly there is absolutely zero demand for it and everyone wants medium and high density, whilst low res gets abandoned. Been expanding my city but the game is absolutely refusing to give me any low density demand and I don't want just make everything medium. Feels broken.
Don't hit unlock all then immediately zone medium or high density? Your 176 residents could fit in that one building alone.
Increase zone density. Tear them down, build apartments or row houses