Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷 on Nostr: it isn't! Pretty much every multi-unit building I've ever lived in, and most I've ...

it isn't! Pretty much every multi-unit building I've ever lived in, and most I've visited, had a single shared room for laundry, from small houses with three or four apartments to big blocks with maybe fifty or hundred apartments.

Some of the latter basically had a built-in tenants-only laundromat, so instead of cramming the tenants' hundred washers and dryers in the basement, the company provided ones (and charged for the use, of course 🙄). Some tenants might still decide to keep a washer or dryer in their own apartments, so long as it doesn't lead to noise complaints.

But by and large, a shared laundry room is super common in Germany. Even building codes are such that it's not permitted to plan for residents having washer/dryer in their apartments due to noise pollution regulations.

(Slight tangent, but condos aren't just apartment buildings – they're apartment buildings *where each apartment is privately owned*.)