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Historically, single young people with starter salaries *routinely* lived in SROs That's not true, and even your own listed source doesn't say that.
by masonic 7y ago
Historically, single young people with starter salaries *routinely* lived in SROs
That's not true, and even your own listed source doesn't say that.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThe SRO link was provided for this quote: Between 1955 and 2013, almost one million SRO units were eliminated in the US due to regulation, conversion or demolition. Military barracks and college dorms are not hugely different from SROs. Most people who join the military do so at age 18, the same age most people start college. I don't readily have some percentage for how many youth were housed in SROs, but both college dorms and military barracks strike me as a lingering form of that legacy from a time where Americans generally figured a single adult didn't really need a full apartment, they just needed a room to sleep in. I'm still trying to to put together stats, but it's a problem space I've studied for years. In a nutshell, our current housing policies and resulting housing stock were born of policies created post-WW2 for the generation that produced the Baby Boomers. Thus, it is all posited on a nuclear family model with a breadwinner father, homemaker mother and 2.5 kids. Meanwhile, our demographic has diversified away from the nuclear family. People are getting married later, having children later, having fewer children, etc. There is a huge mismatch between our housing stock and our housing needs.
- masonic 7y agoNothing there says "single young people".
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI don't have any idea what point you are trying to make here. I'm not suggesting that SROs were solely for single young people. I'm only trying to paint a general picture of the kind of housing that once was commonly available and is no longer which is well-suited to a demographic we have more of now.