This sort of thing really isn’t entirely new - some people have always been crammed, inhumanely, into apartments in certain desirable, dense urban areas (especially in the absence of a livable minimum wage - either because the law made no provision, or because undocumented workers were being paid illegally low wages). The new bits seem to be that the number of cities and towns where this is happening has hugely increased (to include very much not densely populated areas), the lease-holders sharing their own space are (ostensibly) middle class rather than desperately poor, and some of them are setting up wildly unequal living arrangements (presumably their costs are usually unequal too, but, to that degree?).
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