Re: [Marxism] Househunters

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

older workers of the world unite:

In New York, the eternal struggle to cope with the high cost of living
has often meant a willingness to live with just about anyone, anyhow.

Adults in their 30's routinely move back in with their parents. Young
artists bunk with other young artists in $3,000-a-month apartments
intended for two tenants, not six. Poor immigrants wedge themselves into
unsafe tenements, mimicking generations before them.

But more and more, the unforgiving math of housing economics is altering
and upending the lives of older New Yorkers as well, forcing them into
urgent partnerships in which embarrassment is eclipsed by necessity,
fear must be swallowed and the loves and habits of a lifetime must be
bent just to make do - often with complete strangers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/nyregion/17roommates-WEB.html?hp

les schaffer


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