Jen Sorensen for October 05, 2022

The solution WILL be found. Partly changing lifestyles (It’s not “couch surfing” it’s “mobile shared housing”) as well as living with your folks (it’s not “giving up”, it’s “generational living”) …and partly by people refusing to live where it’s impossibly expensive.

Or course housing issues have nothing to do with ever increasing wealth inequality.

That’s because there is no such thing as increasing wealth inequality, only ‘wealth envy’.

It’s one reason I went into nursing. It never becomes unmarketable.

They kicked the frats and sororities out of their houses?

OR they could learn to commute on public transit. Millions of people just like them are already doing so from wherever they can find available housing.

Meanwhile in my campus-adjacent neighborhood in my extremely-devoted-to-the-university town, there’s practically no decent housing to be had if you aren’t a student — or if you’re not willing to live like one.

I live in one of those college towns, and homeless students are more common than you think.

USA is a tailgate.

Poor Babies, get that French Lit. Masters and start living like a rock star, just remember to pay those loans first.

There’s kind of a weird thing going on in my (college town) neighborhood – parents are buying houses for their kids to live in while attending college or grad school! The house next door to me – a 102-year-old townhouse, nicely remodeled inside but still, one bathroom and NO off-street parking! – has changed hands twice since 2018. At exorbitant prices, in my opinion!

The past four years, the occupants were a very nice medical student and his fiancee – they got married and moved to another state for his residency in June. Med students are usually great neighbors – you never see them because they’re always at the hospital. Nice and quiet!

The current neighbor is an undergrad – sophomore, I think he said – and he is not so quiet, particularly when he gets a little “overserved” and locks himself out of the house in the middle of the night! Oh well, hopefully his parents will sell the house to another student family when (if!) he graduates in 3 years.

I can’t even imagine having the disposable income to buy my kid a house for 3 or 4 years!

Well, people are starting to realize that if the go for trade education – heavy vehicle operator, plumber, electrician, et cetra – they can often find education at a local training facility (meaning they can live with parents or roommates), obtain their certifications for much less than many college degrees, and be practically guaranteed a job upon completion of their certifications.

That means fewer people competing for dorm rooms and more people with jobs looking for apartments and other housing options with their considerable sign-on bonuses and their comparative lack of debt.

Chairman Mao went for the landlords first!