Submitted by Armitage1 t3_y99ro5 in nottheonion
Rent is so high eve homeless need to pay now?
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Terrible_Presumption t1_it4k9v8 wrote
One day long ago I was reminiscing about the rising cost of housing with my older brother. More specifically the increase in rent without any benefits. So I tell him things are pretty shitty and I needed to start looking for a roommate. He reminded me that its not that uncommon, to have a roommate. He drove under the street bridge the other day and saw that a few homeless people also had roommates.
coinstash t1_it4o5aq wrote
Big deal. Living in shared houses with up to seven tenants was the only way to afford a roof over my head as far back as 2009 in Australia. I went from there to living in a VW van, then a concrete yacht. At the age of 67 I finally bought a house in the country with a small legacy from my father, otherwise I'd still be living rough today.
I'm not mentally ill or a criminal or an addict, just an ordinary working guy who never made a lot of money due to unstable working conditions in my industry. I'm a trained electronics engineer.
Few-Statistician8740 t1_it4qwh5 wrote
Roommates...
also known as how smart people don't spend all their earnings on housing.
carbonblob t1_it4tkmk wrote
No one is pushing homeless people into becoming roommates if they don't want to. Watch the Seattle is dying documentary or the recent Vancouver is dying documentary. It's clear many homeless prefer the streets. When you occupy a premises legally, there are responsibilities and expectations. They shun these.
Maury_poopins t1_it4zws2 wrote
Can you tell me more about the “concrete yacht”? What is that?
jamcdonald120 t1_it52kl1 wrote
possibly they meant "concrete Yurt"
businessman99 t1_it58yo7 wrote
Does that make them homeless?
yungchow t1_it5cysp wrote
Ok but homeless people may be forced to become roommates with another random homeless person just to be able to get a place
stickfigure420 t1_it5ehc7 wrote
I think he means an RV. Jesse, we gotta cook!
Zedd2087 t1_it5ei0p wrote
The title doesn't say "Homeless look for roommates to afford housing."
golemsheppard2 t1_it5fxmw wrote
If they are renting, how the fuck are they homeless? This is a terrible title for an article.
VitruvianDude t1_it5grem wrote
To have a roommate, I suppose you have to be someone another person can stand to live with. Most people can handle it-- which is why they aren't homeless. Encouraging this and generally making it easier for unrelated people to rent out a room in someone's house is going to help.
SRO (Single Room Occupancy) is another option. SRO hotels were infamous, but they were a roof and a bed off the streets.
There has to be a market solution to homelessness, something that takes into account the "undeserving poor." Roomies are a time-tested solution.
yungchow t1_it5h737 wrote
Pushing absolutely works to convey that message
ifsck t1_it5kb3n wrote
Probably an old sailboat with a hull made of concrete. I've seen a couple and they all were basically in use because it was easier to live in than dispose of.
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KlayKlaster t1_it5naoo wrote
if they were already homeless then its not the high rent pushing them to pair up, because they were already homeless. If they were not already homeless and are being forced to find roommates, then its not homeless people pairing up, its poor people. Either way title is not logical
dalligogle t1_it5r0ru wrote
High meat prices are causing vegetarians to split the cost of beef.
corn_sugar_isotope t1_it5rmnw wrote
aka ferro-cement
Larry_Phischman t1_it5shxx wrote
The parasitic rich are using algorithms to jack up rent. Robespierre was right all along!
ifsck t1_it5t3ol wrote
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prince_corwin t1_it65awl wrote
This is such bullshit. If they are gonna give free housing, they can't force people to share the free housing! Roommates always leave dirty dishes in the sink and their needles uncapped strewed all over the bathroom! Not to mention they never empty the recycling when its full of booze bottles. How dare they!
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consumedinner t1_it6aru7 wrote
this is what regular people are having to do anyways
TimesThreeTheHighest t1_it6bjvn wrote
"Homeless people forced to share homes."
jointheredditarmy t1_it6kv1s wrote
> Meanwhile, pandemic aid and protections against eviction mostly ran out just as the highest inflation in decades began spiking.
Author seems to think it’s coincidental, but maybe there’s some relationship between the two, we should investigate further /s
thehawkman22 t1_it6r7d1 wrote
Yeah, I mean the title doesn’t make sense but the concept has been around forever. Up until I got married I had roommates and half the time they were random people responding to a Craigslist post. I got lucky though. All my roommates turned out to be good people.
HighFromOly t1_it6t1tl wrote
Isn’t that most Americans before age 35?
I pretty much always had roommates. A couple were kinda random work people when I just needed a roommate.
yungchow t1_it720cu wrote
No most people are not forced to get a roommate who is that sketchy
AJSopranosEyebrows t1_it73qq0 wrote
It is super common to have random strangers from Craigslist as roommates in American cities. I live in Boston and if you're single and apartment hunting, Craigslist and friends-of-friends-of-friends are the only way to get into a place .
trogdor1776 t1_it7iwr2 wrote
Title should be: "Housing Crisis Choice: Roommate or no room at all"
AftyOfTheUK t1_it8icm5 wrote
>Ok but homeless people may be forced to become roommates with another random homeless person just to be able to get a place
I spent my entire life from 21 to 41 years old living with other people, and sharing a house.
Being "forced" to share a house with someone is not a problem and shouldn't be treated as one.
AftyOfTheUK t1_it8irkt wrote
>To have a roommate, I suppose you have to be someone another person can stand to live with.
As someone who shared a house with housemates for 20 years, you simply have to want a roof over your head more than you dislike your troublesome roommate.
If people are homeless because they don't like living with someone else, or because they're an asshole and nobody else will live with them, I don't see that as a problem for me or society, that's a problem for them to solve.
>There has to be a market solution to homelessness
Some people need to adjust their expectations and room up in a big house with several other people to keep bills low.
Other people are mentally ill, or like to be homeless, and there's little we can do with money or housing policy to help those people.
Warsplit01 t1_it8pb3j wrote
at this point they are no longer homeless
versebadger1 t1_it9mrf6 wrote
Most people don't get much stuff bought for them, and most people therefore can't afford a whole apartment by themselves until they get a well into a well paying career.
If you live in a haystack or have rich parents that might be different, but that makes you an outlier.
Tedstor t1_it4cnjd wrote
This should have been a thing all along