>I also find it strange that in a page about solutions to loneliness, you reject one that, by your own admission, would introduce someone lonely to a wide variety of new people.
I don't see how sharing the bathroom and the kitchen with alcoholics, drug addicts, ex-cons, and mentally ill could possibly alleviate one's loneliness. and trust me, even a few of those per floor are enough to make living there an unpleasant experience.
you picture SRO as some kind of hippie commune thing. it's not. again: no one in their sane mind actively chooses to live in such inhumane conditions. it is utterly bizarre to me that someone would romanticize sharing a toilet with fifty other people.
Like I said, if SROs are legal, you will get better and worse examples. Certainly a lot of people lived in university dormitories which are not, of course, filled with the dregs of society. Is there a market for an SRO hall filled with young Congressional staffers in Washington DC? Or one on Wall Street for young entry-level folk working in investment banks pulling 16 hour days in their first couple of years? Almost certainly. You keep out the dregs of society the same as anywhere else: you charge more than the cheapest places and ask people to sign a strict behavioral code where violations result in quick eviction.
And you share a toilet with a hundred other people in your workplace. So what? SRO rent pays for cleaning staff for common areas.
I don't see how sharing the bathroom and the kitchen with alcoholics, drug addicts, ex-cons, and mentally ill could possibly alleviate one's loneliness. and trust me, even a few of those per floor are enough to make living there an unpleasant experience.
you picture SRO as some kind of hippie commune thing. it's not. again: no one in their sane mind actively chooses to live in such inhumane conditions. it is utterly bizarre to me that someone would romanticize sharing a toilet with fifty other people.