Shared space living works as long as your roommates don’t come back horribly drunk and reek of alcohol. True story: when I moved to Lausanne I stayed at the you

Shared space living works as long as your roommates don’t come back horribly drunk and reek of alcohol. True story: when I moved to Lausanne I stayed at the youth hostel for a week while looking for a place to live. The police would bring in some people in sometimes who didn’t have a place to stay…and it was pretty horrible, I’m not even sure how to describe the smell even today. Suffice to say, I got out of that hostel as quickly as possible. Youth hostels used to be able to discriminate with a lot of requirements to prevent chronic homeless from using them (you need a passport, you need to be under a certain age) but as soon as those criteria disappeared, they basically become unviable.