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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I don't think SP has more apartment dwellers than NYC. According to this link, only 16% of the housing stock in NYC is made up of single-family units, which sounds about right to me. That would mean the overall population living in single-family units in NYC is well below 10% of city residents.
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Brazilian 2022 Census is happening right now and the first results will be available in December. The share of apartments will increase in São Paulo obviously, but I don't see them going way above 40% for now. So yes, even in absolute numbers, there are more apartments in New York than in São Paulo.
São Paulo looks a lot like Tokyo in this regard: from aerial pictures it seems there are only highrises/midrises, but houses are actually the majority of households. In Brazil, Porto Alegre, followed by Rio de Janeiro, are the ones with the highest share of apartments, but none of them above 50% (2010 Census).