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For the past few years I've been living in an art collective / commune type situation. It's made me appreciate housing and what all that means in a different way.
I, too, have the idea that this would be the best sort of future- I look at low-cost properties in spots like Cleveland as an opportunity to build a community from the ground up. I don't know how affordable that'd be in New York.
But how we live in America is a very prescribed and notional concept that often has a great effect on not only our day to day lives, but also the possibility of what shape those lives can take.
If anything, since exploring this aspect of the fringe / underground, as well as dealing with the concept and consequence of shared resources and a general sense of poverty, I have a better idea of what actual community is, than say what I've experienced in an apartment building in the past.
So, when possible, I always recommend improving social situations to incorporate more people, closer community bonds and the ability to existentially be more.