The textile factory's apartment buildings had already broken ground, and work was underway leveling the land and digging the foundations.
The buildings had been designed by Wang Yan. Each one had six floors and two units. Each unit had three apartments per floor, measuring fifty-five, seventy, and eighty-five square meters respectively, all with balconies. The ground-floor apartments also came with yards.
Those floor areas were the actual usable areas, with not a single square meter of shared public space deducted. The balconies were not even included in the stated area.
Each building housed thirty-six families. The first phase would construct twenty buildings, for a total of seven hundred and twenty households. This covered the textile factory's original employees, their children who had later joined the factory, and retired veteran workers. The reason there were so many units was that they had taken marriage and childbirth into account. Another group of workers had gotten married over the past two years, and they would have children within a year. All of that had to be considered.
As for allocation, management cadres naturally all received the larger eighty-five-square-meter apartments, but there were only a few cadres in the end. The rest would be allocated according to family size. Bigger families would get bigger apartments, while smaller families would get smaller ones. Older people would live on lower floors, while younger people would live higher up.
These days, every family had a lot of children. Even an eighty-five-square-meter apartment would not feel all that spacious once they moved in...
Even with housing regulations in place, since the leaders were treated the same as the workers, no one could really complain. Wang Yan was willing to do this sort of thing, so long as it made his own situation reasonably comfortable while benefiting more people.