California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working

Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:17AM (#36162555)

Where do you get the idea apartments.com is a source that can inform you about the market price of shared housing?

As a long-time participant in the bay area rental housing market, $1000 is enough to rent a bedroom in many homes, but how would such a listing get onto apartments.com?

If you’re paying more than $1000 to share a bedroom, you’re getting ripped off.

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by o1y32 on Friday June 02, 2023 @05:23PM (#36170927)

Your comment does not provide any concrete example. Even if what you say is true, access is a real issue. You think homeless people would know how to find those $1000 options if a random person cannot find them via a simple search?

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:02PM (#36171943)

Apartments.com seems very corporate, I doubt most people are even aware if they are allowed to post on there.

Check Craigslist, that’s the main place people who are looking for randoms to rent a room will post:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/roo?max_price=1000&min_p...

Of course, most people would prefer to room with family or friends (especially if we’re talking about multiple people in the same room). That’s not an SF issue, it’s human nature. So a lot of roommate groups are going to be formed through word-of-mouth, or smaller community group chats/boards.

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