When they shut these down what do they do long term about the people living in them? Presumably they rented these places as they couldn’t afford anything built to building codes. It sounds like they were forced into a homeless shelter?
Second, they were $600/month, which is low for NYC but not exactly the kind of rent level for people who would otherwise be homeless. This was also lower east side. For the same price you could split a bedroom somewhere further and commute in.
Err... that’s exactly what I said - emergency relocation because they made them homeless.
> For the same price you could split a bedroom somewhere further and commute in.
‘They were just people who didn’t want to share space’ seems unlikely for people literally sharing their vertical space so much they couldn't stand up.
Why can't we as a society dictate that there will be minimum standards that have to be met?