You say this, but in the great depression it was perfectly normal to open up extra rooms to borders if you had the room. We live in a time/place where money is

You say this, but in the great depression it was perfectly normal to open up extra rooms to borders if you had the room. We live in a time/place where money is reasonably readily available; You take that away and "society" makes all sorts of accommodations for "you're preventing homelessness" and "you're doing what you have to do to pay your debts". Though given rising inequality, we might be closer than we think.