Is It Time for America to Bring Back the Boarding House?
26th June 2021
Portland housing advocate Leon Porter estimates that there are 1.5 million bedrooms in Oregon alone that no one is sleeping in, either because the home is vacant or because it’s simply a guest room in an occupied house.
If just 1% of those rooms were rented out, every homeless person in the state could have a roof over their head — and homeowners might get some much-needed financial relief as well.
One of the funniest parts of the movie REAL GENIUS was when Mitch called home and told his parents that he wanted to quit college and come home, and they informed him that they had rented out His Room. The funny part was that nobody does that any more, especially middle class parents like Mitch’s.