British Columbia

I lived in a quadplex on a corner lot in a nice neighbourhood, it was great. square building divided into quarters. 3 floors for each unit. Everyone gets a porch and bbq side deck, and detatched garage structure toward the alley side of property.

Why are they "ghetto"?

What is wrong with this streamlining of the process for property owners who have space and can afford to build?

What other solution do you suggest that would be better/faster/stronger?

You're right, I sure hate my ghetto fourplex unit. For the price of a condo I have a small yard and garden that doesn't take all my time looking after, three bedrooms, a garage, street level access, and all in an established character neighborhood close to bike lanes and breweries. I'd totally rather be living in a box in the sky with no space and be aspiring to one day own a suburban single detached home that I'll probably never afford. Plus I hate that it offers density within the existing city footprint and infrastructure, I definitely prefer either concrete towers or massive homes sprawling out into nature. Affordable in between options that provide reasonable living situations utilizing resources we already have are definitely not a fix and should be banned!

/s on the hating it part if it wasn't obvious, I love my fourplex unit. Sarcasm aside, in what way is this not at least working to part of the solution? It took decades of investment properties, corporate buying, speculation holding, population growth, with a dash of COVID inflation to get us in this mess. There's no magic bullet solution, so anything that helps and without any apparent negatives can only be a good thing?

Edit: words are hard