5 comments

  • AfterHIA 2 days ago ago

    I remember a hero of mine saying, "that if you need help go down to the YMCA-- they have excellent facilities."

    That man was Hank Rutherford Hill. He recently got back from an assignment in Saudi Arabia.

  • toomuchtodo 2 days ago ago

    Original title "Young Man, There's (Not) A Place You Can Go: The Death of YMCA Housing & What Japanese Internet Cafés Can Teach Us" compressed to fit within title limits.

  • e40 2 days ago ago

    Excellent article! Well sourced and logical. Thank you.

  • nxobject a day ago ago

    As an illustration of where housing laws left SROs, I highly recommend this fantastic documentary on the last SROs in downtown Chicago - “Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels” (2018). It turns out that a lot of the residents are elderly retirees… which says a great deal about how changes in housing laws can follow a generation ‘til they die.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YbjKxdfE8Q