Sanders unveils $2.5 trillion 'Housing for All' plan

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39. Because I was an engineer.

I was able to get a nice one bedroom apartment right out of college. Took a couple months to get furniture, but I was ok sleeping on the floor.

The thing that I see with both residential and commercial rents is that as a location grows and becomes more prosperous, rents go up. But we also see fewer mobile home parks in those places (housing is generally of better quality). The challenge that is before us is to have a situation where a person on a livable wage for an area can afford a decent roof over his or her head. Maybe we should fund and maintain a roommate registry so that people can find compatible roommates (no partiers rooming with work and rest types, ect). I don't think that it is a bad idea that adults have roommates in expensive places, that has lots of benefits like sharing food costs.

Government has a role in keeping rents low, but not through rent control. I prefer government financially backing landlords that make and keep a pledge to offer good quality rental property at a rate that is affordable for an average worker or small business. But the landlord should have control over selecting tenants, as long as they don't discriminate by race, gender, sexual orientation. I think that it is ok for a landlord to require that a person be a citizen or legal resident, but the landlord would also have the option to rent to responsible people that are not.