Reply #163: the op thinks that the government should pay for each to have their own market rate apartment... [View All]

[dysfunctional press]

and that is just plain crazy. if they can't afford to rent their own apartments, they need to do what everyone else in that situation generally does- they find roommates to share expenses with. and i never said that people should be forced to have any one particular roommate- that's not how it works in the real world. in the real world, people find their own roomates through social contacts, classified ads, and the like.

the mcmansion idea might be a way to go, except that the other neighbors would fight it tooth and nail to protect what's left of their property values.

my wife and i were looking to buy a two-flat in evanston a number of years ago, when some agency came in and bought it at the full asking price, in order to make it into just such a group home.