>>1450111Yeah youre right but my point was that because the regulations and taxes and fees were so much laxer you could have this lower level option for people just starting out on their own. Even in Hong Kong they have micro apartments and the like.
Now in the west though, there is no incentive to take the kinds of risks it takes to be a landlord just to rent to someone for 200-300 dollars a month. I have seen some adverts in Europe but they are essentially migrant camps or flop houses specifically for immigrants and it looked like a very sketchy situation if you didn't know the ins and outs of that community. In the states your best best at that kind of income level is literally mobile living situations.
Also in South America you favellas and in South Africa people just make their own huts out of corrugated aluminum. In America a lot of those people end up being a huge burden to their friends and family or they get dumped literally on the street where they bother everyone else.
And lets not forget "communal apartments" in the USSR where if you were middle class after the revolution soldiers showed up at your house and put 3 or 4 families into your house and you had to sometimes share beds and were lucky if you kept your toothbrush. If that happened in the modern world you can imagine the kind of violence and aggressiveness the new tenants would probably display over what was once your property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment 