U.S. cities used to have low-rent, short-term, dorm-style housing. Is that what US Millennials need?

>The housing unit known as single-room occupancy (SRO) was common up until the 1970's
>residential hotels were decimated by zoning and redevelopment as critics of hotel living said it bred crime, disease and culturally deviant lifestyles.

I did that, but I had just turned 16...had to stay at Sally Anne for a bit first though...

Reminder that the only reason property is so fucking expensive is because of loans in the first place.

Think about it. What would happen in a world without usury and loans? Would everyone simply cease having houses? No, the housing market would need to adjust its prices to make itself more affordable to the common man. Conversely, the fact that people get mortgages to pay for houses is what unshackles housing prices and allows them to expand into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's the same way with college tuition. Tuition prices skyrocketed because of student loans. Why? Student loans allowed people to get in without having up-front money. Suddenly, the colleges can start cranking up tuition, because it just means the student taking out a bigger loan for money they don't have anyway. Also the exact same situation with health insurance. Healthcare is expensive because there's insurance to cover costs, so it's okay to inflate the price when the insurance company ends up covering it.

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>cap rent inflation at 1% per year
yhea good luck with that you fucking commie.
rents go up because property and school taxes go up.
you want cheaper rent?
get control of local government and school spending.
guess what? you cant.
all those fucks have been promised retirements and it is coming out of your hide, millennial.

only if it has reliable hardwired internet. destined to fail unless they install tier 1 wireless gateways everywhere. then yes, it will work and profit

Cheap unglamorous housing is something we require.

However these days "poor" = "drugs and crime".

Would you want to live in a $25 a night dorm room? If everyone else in the dorm was some crackhead, meth addict, had severe mental health issues, etc?

Could you imagine what that shared bathroom is like?

I don't know man. It's an admirable idea. But there needs to be some way to weed out addicts and crazies. And right now there isn't.

Right now if you opened up a $25 a night cheapo capsule hotel or something like that, it would be ruined in a month. Shit everywhere. Used needles.

We need some sort of homeless person rating system. I've said this in other ways. We need a way to only rent to A class and B class homeless people, and not C and D class homeless people.

We need to build affordable housing for the people that DO have jobs but live in their cars and shower at the gym. Those types. Those are the A and B class homeless people. We need a way to prefer them and say fuck off to the crazies and addicts.

Is it legal to drug test people for application to rent? Is it legal to only rent to sober people?

Cause that would probably fix the whole situation.

yep, cool story if you renoved a bank's ability to loan out 500% more money than it owns, housing prices would drop 5x.

People still do temporary work, they just have to compete for it in a 20 mile radius of their over priced apartments that they're tied to with year long leases and expensive deposits/moving fees.

>bred crime, disease and culturally deviant lifestyles.

So what's changed?

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Bring back the Flophouse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse

That's how we live in the third world. Welcome to the club, Sam.

You don't need any of that nonsense. You just need to give land lords the right to kick people out on a whim. If they could do that, then anyone acting like shit and destroying property would be back on the street faster than you could say "dindu nuffin." But these days, that would get you buried under discrimination and fair housing lawsuits.

This.

Or you could just move to a smaller town and have a house on a 40k salary. You don't have to move to some cow town either, there are small towns on the coast where this is easy to do.

>mfw trying to make it in a high COA area
>mfw brother just got a job in our comfy hometown with a five minute commute to work from his nice, cheap house
>mfw boomers have the market cornered here, a three bedroom home costs 300k
>mfw the melatonin is starting kick in and I need to get some sleep to wage cuck for overpriced efficiency apartment that I don't even own

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We still have these around my city, and short term means as long as you want. Yes it is mostly people straight out the psych ward and black families growing weed and selling pills.

>durr why it cost so much to live in densely populated city full of high-earning specialists?
>me want live in big city!

Workman's housing. Club YMCA. Back when young men and young women with JOBS would stay at decent housing.

nah fuc kthat just kill the city, like detroit.

I have never been more depressed than when I was a uni freshman living with people in a dorm. That was fucking miserable. 9 years on now and I'll never have another roommate. Fuck that

>living in a city
Enjoy your terrible physical health and mental illnesses.

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>$225 per month for a bunk room, or $330 for a single room

Just live with your parents forever (or at least until you get married, then you AND your spouse live there forever)

Capsule hotels and social credit system when?

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College dorms?? Nigga they aren't that cheap

when the chinese evolve.

quote is for a hotel in the article

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Landlords absolutely can and do conduct background checks, so you are already part way there.

They're common in New England cities. We call them rooming houses. I spent a few months in a place called the Cadillac Motel when I first moved to New Hampshire. I paid by the week for a room and did temp construction work until I got on my feet. I now run my own business.