I paid $100/mo for my corporate dorm in Japan. It was pretty dingy, but there were better, well designed studio and 1BR arrangements for $150 that would open up

I paid $100/mo for my corporate dorm in Japan. It was pretty dingy, but there were better, well designed studio and 1BR arrangements for $150 that would open up after a year or so that you could move into. I'd roughly estimate that this was 1/5 the cost of market housing. I had to move out because the particular one I was in was too close to industrial smog, but I have friends who still live in a $150/mo corporate dorm after 6 years working there. Not a bad arrangement at all since many of us went home exclusively to sleep anyways.