The three housing types were parallel concepts, not tiers. So-called unified housing standards had never been particularly realistic—and besides, that would be far too un-imperial.
The first type was a fifteen-square-meter single room, the second a seventy-five-square-meter ordinary family residence, and the last a one-hundred-square-meter model family home.
The logic this time was very simple. The Austrian Empire encouraged childbirth. Single dogs deserved nothing but single rooms, while ordinary families with one to three children could rent seventy-five-square-meter standard apartments.
Families with more than four children, meanwhile, could rent model family homes.
A standard apartment cost twice as much as a single room, but the rent for a model family home was only five percent higher than that of a standard apartment. That was the welfare provided by the state.
The reason for adopting a model of low-rent housing plus Khrushchyovka-style buildings was likewise to prevent the housing market from overheating and certain people from maliciously speculating in property.
At the same time, this would make policy adjustments easier, strengthen the state's control over the grassroots, and prevent people from exploiting loopholes.
Fleglova stared at the plan on the wall, biting her lip as she thought hard.
"Your Majesty, what does the five-year grace period mean?"
"You understand commoners so well. Then tell me—do you think some people might try to exploit a loophole and do something terrible?"
Franz spoke casually. Fleglova's eyes immediately widened, and then she nodded with certainty.
"They would."
"That is why there must be sufficiently high sunk costs and sufficiently high risks, so that they keep a reverence in their hearts."
Fleglova shuddered all over. She had never believed Franz to be the saint the Church claimed he was. Devil—Satan—those seemed far more fitting.
Infanticide had been no rarity in the former world. East or