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Percent of Surveyed Properties with 100 or More Units
100%
90%
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70%
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50%
40%
30%
20%
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0%
32.0%
In-rent (or HOA)
N=865
43.4%
Submetered
N=129
70.7%
RUBS
N=259
60.7%
Hot-water hybrid
N=28
66.7%
Other
N=6
41.8%
TOTAL
N=1287
Figure 4.3 Properties with more than 100 units, manager survey respondents
In addition to having fewer units on the site, in-rent properties also reported having fewer
buildings per site (or property). Forty-five percent of in-rent properties consisted of one or two
buildings, compared to 20% of submetered properties, 23% of RUBS properties and 33% of hot
water hybrid properties. A relatively small percentage of the properties responding to this survey
included “high-rise” buildings, that is, buildings of more than 5 stories, although they were
slightly more prevalent among the in-rent properties; 10% of in-rent properties had any buildings
of more than 5 stories, compared to 3% of submetered, 4% of RUBS and 7% of hot water hybrid
properties.
As would be expected given the smaller number of units per property, in-rent properties
had fewer total people living in the complex compared to impact properties. Survey respondents
reported that, on average, 177 people lived in the in-rent complexes, compared to 293 people per
property in submetered properties, 386 people per property in RUBS properties, and 392 in hot
water hybrid properties.
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