In an analysis of the plans of existing three-room apartments built by the public sector in Israel, the graphs of the plans, representing the connections between activities, were checked. A comparison of these graphs with those generated by a computer model showed that many types of plans that may offer an answer to the housing requirements of different sectors of the population do not exist in the inventory of housing already built.
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