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A Walk in the Clouds
1995 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Alfonso Arau
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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They still exist in the US, but are much less common and have a generally terrible reputation. These days, new ones seem to only get built as supportive housing for long-term homeless people with addictions and the like who just can't make their lives work on their own. This means some of them aren't even available to the public as a general rental. They end up part of the welfare system, in essence, and you can't get into them without proving need, which is problematic in its own right.
They used to be just normal rentals for people just starting out who didn't have much money. If you watch old movies or movies set in a prior era (like "A walk in the clouds"), this was normal market-rate housing for folks without tons of money. And that's mostly not the case anymore in the US.
Also, the last time I looked -- back when I actually lived in the San Francisco Bay Area well over a decade ago -- SROs in San Francisco were already more than $1000/month.
No. In my case, that is a recipe for disaster. I have a form of cystic fibrosis. It involves a compromised immune system and predisposition to develop deadly antibiotic resistant infections. People who have CF and want to attend related medical conferences are often asked to show they do not test positive for certain infections that are not a big problem for the general population but can be a serious problem for people with CF.
Furthermore, you are ignoring my point that I did not have a diagnosis until shortly before my 36th birthday. Even without a diagnosis, I was well aware that my health was delicate, though other people viewed me as a hypochondriac and neurotic.
My argument is that people should be able to find a small cheap place they can afford to live in on their own if they strongly prefer living alone. They should not need to justify such a preference. A desire to have your own place and willingness to accept something small and bare bones should not make you a freak that society cannot accommodate. It was a completely normal arrangement in this country for quite a long time. Then we tore down most of our SROs and such accommodations these days are no longer a normal living arrangement for a young person just starting out. They are a program for hardcore junkies who would otherwise be chronically homeless and they have a terrible public image.
But if you watch old movies, or movies set in a previous era, just having a room with a sink and hot plate was completely normal for ordinary people. You see this in movies like A walk in the clouds. It was not Section 8 housing. It was not The Projects. It was a market rate rental commonly available.
There is no reason we can't bring that back.