incontinentiabuttock [none/use name]
The issue is that if we don’t standardize some aspect of what is acceptable living conditions then inhumane things like 100 people sharing a toilet happen. There’s meeting the needs and increasing quality of life. 100 people can share the toilet, it would be efficient if kept clean, people might have to wait to take a shit but it would meet a need. It would be nice to have a personal toilet, it would be reasonable to assume that with proper planning everyone could have one. Maybe in some situations where there is scarcity and poverty that might not be possible and people will have to share. But 100 people sharing a toilet is disgusting. We should at least try to cap how many people use the same toilet.
People who have mobility issues should obviously have different spaces from those who don’t for accessibility reasons.
Thats a very big issue as to why there should be some kind of minimum amount of space and design standards. Ideally someone in a wheelchair would have no problem accessing any location, that would require apartment design to make room for a wheelchair, that would make things like Murphy beds in an emergency situation bad, it may be hard for a disabled person to move furniture that would block an exit if we are designing every apartment to be as compact as possible. Plus claustrophobia exists.