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Zedd2087 t1_it4k4en wrote

Idiots wrote this title, being a roommate implys you are the opposite of homeless.

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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

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Zedd2087 t1_it5ei0p wrote

The title doesn't say "Homeless look for roommates to afford housing."

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yungchow t1_it5h737 wrote

Pushing absolutely works to convey that message

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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

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consumedinner t1_it6aru7 wrote

this is what regular people are having to do anyways

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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.

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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.

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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.

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yungchow t1_it720cu wrote

No most people are not forced to get a roommate who is that sketchy

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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 .

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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.

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golemsheppard2 t1_it5fxmw wrote

If they are renting, how the fuck are they homeless? This is a terrible title for an article.

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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.

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Maury_poopins t1_it4zws2 wrote

Can you tell me more about the “concrete yacht”? What is that?

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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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dalligogle t1_it5r0ru wrote

High meat prices are causing vegetarians to split the cost of beef.

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Few-Statistician8740 t1_it4qwh5 wrote

Roommates...

also known as how smart people don't spend all their earnings on housing.

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SwiftCEO t1_it5made wrote

Did OP alter the headline?

This is the current headline:

Roommate wanted: Homeless people are pairing up as a way around the housing crisis

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Larry_Phischman t1_it5shxx wrote

The parasitic rich are using algorithms to jack up rent. Robespierre was right all along!

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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.

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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.

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Renshnard t1_it5x70e wrote

Homeless people are having to sleep two to a box?

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Shit is getting real.

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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

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trogdor1776 t1_it7iwr2 wrote

Title should be: "Housing Crisis Choice: Roommate or no room at all"

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Tedstor t1_it4cnjd wrote

This should have been a thing all along

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skexzies t1_it5r1wu wrote

Soooo...this means they are sharing a tent???

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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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gechu t1_it6648d wrote

They're homeless because they never heard about this thing called "roommates."

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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.

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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.

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