Dorm-Style Housing Offers Affordable Housing Alternative For Boston Residents

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CBS Boston

2 жыл бұрын

WBZ-TV's Brandon Truitt reports.

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@80660018 2 жыл бұрын

How is 1700 for just a bedroom affordable? At that price, might as well get a studio

@irafa2 2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not it is in Boston. I have a studio in the city and I pay $1300 for it, and is in the cheap side for the location as I’m close to a few T stations.

@brendan9951 2 жыл бұрын

Thats what im saying or just live on the outskirts of boston

@80660018 2 жыл бұрын

@@irafa2 1700 is only for a bedroom,not a 1 bedroom apartment. You can fine share apartment for cheaper in Boston. I live in Boston

@houchi69 2 жыл бұрын

1700 includes utilities, wifi, and all the amenities. Did you actually listen?

@johnbower3002 2 жыл бұрын

@@houchi69 you can pay 1700 for a house out in the country with all that and still be able to travel because.....wew...cars exist..who knew automobiles existed

@felixthecat2786 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with this is that it only offers housing options for college students whereas families, young professionals, couples, etc....are really in need of the housing.

@DI-uk9rj 2 жыл бұрын

well considering that students eat up a lot of the housing in Boston and drive up the rents this kind of development is not a problem at all.

@houchi69 2 жыл бұрын

What's the issue with young professionals living here? Why can't couples live here?

@thinkrationally08 2 жыл бұрын

@@houchi69 high inequality and stagnant wages= a large proportion of folks who cannot afford bostons insanely high rent which increases every year

@JW-cx8tg 2 жыл бұрын

How about more laws limiting investment properties? So many homes and apartments are bought by foreign buyers and investment funds with cash payments, and most countries put road blocks in place for these type of buyers, we do not. We should stop catering to people who do not even live here and are just taking up housing as an investment vehicle when actual residents are struggling to compete in the market for the left overs.

@johnbower3002 2 жыл бұрын

10000000000000000% agree

@claireconover 2 жыл бұрын

it’ll only be affordable for a little while. they filled an old redeveloped mall in downtown providence with furnished micro apartments (no kitchen, microwave only) those apartments were originally $500 but the price didn’t stay so cheap… rent very quickly shot up past $1000.

@bikinglikebecker 2 жыл бұрын

Turning into Japan, how long until we are sleeping in coffins??? They do it in Japan because of lack of space but we are doing it because of lack of wealth... 3rd biggest nation in the world and they got people living in cubicles... absolutely appalling...!!!

@juancena4142 2 жыл бұрын

Even in Japan we didn't have these in Tokyo. At best a studio apartment but not this shared washroom type stuff. Maybe a hostel will be like this.

@brianbeecher3084 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it's a case of what's old becoming new again. At one time there were loads of what became known as SRO (single room occupancy) hotels prevalent in our cities before zoning laws and negative images ate away at them. With the current housing crisis they need to be brought back. While each room can only hold one person, at least it's a start. We need to realize that such barbaric housing costs are a huge drag on the rest of the economy.

@bikinglikebecker 2 жыл бұрын

@@brianbeecher3084 nah, our homes keep getting smaller & smaller.. a full time job can't even afford a 1 bedroom apartment...

@theresam2409 2 жыл бұрын

@@brianbeecher3084Tthose SRO's had very cheap rents.

@johnbower3002 2 жыл бұрын

@@juancena4142 Do you think this is less Japanese and perhaps, more Chinese?

@jgmgreen01 2 жыл бұрын

are these not called HOSTELS?

@devonforsure260 2 жыл бұрын

1700 with roomates sounds about right nowadays 😩🤣

@memy2832 2 жыл бұрын

4. The city .

@pamveeee 2 жыл бұрын

made by a developer… enough said

@deanhasan9862 2 жыл бұрын

I can't pay to stay in a home with no peace of mind can't be comfy with strangers and who ever had the balls to present that idea should be harshly reprimanded

@boogiedownforever 2 жыл бұрын

yah who wants some strangers crumbs I your butter

@Csilva857 2 жыл бұрын

So.... Why not just build more housing ? This is not really that hard

@Tangerinetaco 2 жыл бұрын

I think they want to keep the number of housing units low so that the cost of one stays high. I think city officials are pretending to care. Landlords love charging what they do so I can’t see much change happening anytime soon.

@Csilva857 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tangerinetaco yeah you're right . This is getting insane . It's time to move !!

@Csilva857 2 жыл бұрын

@@REALChannel99 Exactly and then when there is a market collapse like 2008 all of a sudden all those homeowners who voted against new housing because they wanted to inflate thier housing prices get wiped out and they complain that they can't retire and we have to bail out the banks as the homeowners foreclosed. If we stop trying to create artificial shortages then we won't have housing bubbles and housing will become cheaper. Plus all of the money people would have spent saving for a home would be able to go to more productive uses like investment in healthcare or green energy or something else. By the way I was reading that the Dallas Federal Reserve is expecting a "market correction" I.E Crash. So if you're in the market to own a house you'd do better to wait and not get hung out to dry like 2008

@lizabetx483 2 жыл бұрын

It will work well for young people just out of college or single persons moving to Boston for a new job. It is transition housing.

@miketampabay9446 2 жыл бұрын

Transitions will go on forever. So this will always be useful to someone

@brendan9951 2 жыл бұрын

Why not get a bunch of Boxabls and have rent be below 1k probably could get it to 600-850 dollar range if the price for a boxabl is what they say it is (250ish a month (each one is just under 50k))

@boogiedownforever 2 жыл бұрын

how about every new building built or refurbished allocates the bottom few floors for normal working people that need subsidized housing.

@gillian2325 2 жыл бұрын

just checked their prices. this is still not affordable.

@MerchCafe 2 жыл бұрын

Yep.. EXACTLY.

@steavey301 2 жыл бұрын

They have started doing this in Denver … this is NOT affordable 😳

@caveben3523 2 жыл бұрын

Live in your cube and eat your bugs

@numberstimes 2 жыл бұрын

Try living off grid in a small C or B class..

@PWingert1966 2 жыл бұрын

what has been done for social housing I can tell you it's scary when you come into the kitchen for a cup of coffee and another occupant threatens you and tells you to leave the kitchen because he is cooking and he has a butcher knife in his hand! Another time another tenant had a guest overdose and die, and he carried her out in a bed sheet and dropped her in the back alley to be found. The difference is money. If there was a basic income for everyone this might be a workable solution. This might be an option for people to cohabitate.

@PWingert1966 2 жыл бұрын

@@REALChannel99 and if you are in a wheel chair and partially paralyzed you expect them to levitate?

@IntriguedLioness 2 жыл бұрын

Or return to the apartment hotels of New York City, really grand buildings where one had living space and one one's own bath but no need for a kitchen as there was a proper dining room on the first floor. Both I and one of my friends lived in two distinct buildings that once had this floor plan and I believe we should return to the style for singles. There are actually a few new buildings in San Francisco's Rincon area that are taking up this floor plan in brand-new buildings. Given restaurants and food delivery, a rooftop deck to socialize and even host parties, gyms on premises... Why does everyone need a kitchen when you have wonderful city life?

@atenrok 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like some marketing garbage from a developer's promotion booklet....

@happinesscomesinwaves5534 2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm!

@nicholaslazenka1700 2 жыл бұрын

I want to buy not rent a small place, this is not for me

@hughjassel6415 2 жыл бұрын

"Come to the big city and rent a hive pod!" No thanks.

@lilyrose7082 2 жыл бұрын

Sure, they’re $1700 now, just wait a few years 👎🏼. Btw, where’s the help for Boston’s actual home grown resident families? Oh yeah, tough luck for them! It’ll be full of college students and if not, who wants to live with total strangers that won’t clean up after themselves? This is a terrible idea!

@luisrzabala Жыл бұрын

We need any and all housing options in Boston. Build more of these

@HidamariNuko 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Mao wasn't wrong about everything.

@videos_varios5764 8 ай бұрын

Wow, this is high-end living at affordable prices. It's an oxymoron for sure.

@johnbower3002 2 жыл бұрын

"Do you want to live in Boston" No, cars exist

@douglasjgallup 2 жыл бұрын

I am all for things like this. Ideally, I'd like a room that has a nice bed, a small sofa, and a small kitchenette with shared bathrooms and other lounge and dining areas.

@atenrok 2 жыл бұрын

How old are you?

@honeysuckle860 2 жыл бұрын

Shared bathrooms, no thanks. 🥴🤢

@deanhasan9862 2 жыл бұрын

I'd think the last thing anyone would want to share is a bathroom

@douglasjgallup 2 жыл бұрын

@@atenrok Old enough to know that possessions and big houses don’t bring happiness.

@atenrok 2 жыл бұрын

@@douglasjgallup I thought so

@bamboopanda1626 Жыл бұрын

Boston is for the most esteemed. As a matter of fact, it is so much for the most esteemed that nearly half of it is vacant. 🏌️ I have an idea. Kick out all rich people from the rural areas and send them to Boston.