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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by causality0 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:00AM (#34287019)
Huh, I could've sworn there was an HN submission where this company announced they were pivoting to a different business model. I remember being happy, because I thought "get poor people to pay to live in a poverty box in their betters' back yards" was the most dystopian shit I'd ever heard.
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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by sokoloff on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:00AM (#34287272)
Right after college, I lived in an illegal barely dry-walled off 1BR slice of a 4BR house and later in a (probably illegal) basement apartment in a split-level.

They fit my budget/needs and were way better than being homeless. I don’t see the problem of people building housing to serve the left third of the economic distribution.

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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by mherdeg on Saturday January 07, 2023 @08:04AM (#34287653)
Looks like there is also myhomestead.com & ottoadu.com ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/homestead ). Are you thinking of them maybe?
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Re:What Happened to Rent the Backyard (post-mortem) by thehappypm on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:12AM (#34288096)
Homelessness and excruciatingly high rent is far more dystopian.
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