[sergeantdave]

Look up boarding houses and start building them. It’s a 19th century concept that worked fine for Americans.

You get a bedroom and two square meals each day - breakfast and dinner. There’s a community room to smoke cigars, sip cognac and follow your favorite sports team. And it won’t cost $2,000 a month.

[blam]

I used to go to a boarding house for their $2.00 country style all you could eat lunches.

Boarding houses as you described won't work anymore. They required people to be civilized, be polite and have some manners.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’d bet that today there would be permitting and insurance requirements to run a boardinghouse that no one in the 19th century could have imagined.

In my impecunious younger days, I had to live with quite a variety of roommates at different times. I expect to see a lot more residence-sharing and informal cooperative situations happening in the coming years.

[PeterPrinciple]

Look up boarding houses and start building them. It’s a 19th century concept that worked fine for Americans.

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IF you live in the building you rent (up to a triplex), you are not subject to all the discrimination regulations. Little known law still on the books. Renting rooms I assume would be the same.