http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/12/french-phrase-of-day-scum-villages.html
we wrote of the controversial European tuigdorpen or Abschaum-Dörfer.
The following puts this in perspective.]
Of course, what counts as habitable housing, and
who counts as scum, is a relative matter.
The most inhumanely compressed living-space I ever
witnessed, was in undergraduate housing at the University of California at Berkeley. There was just room enough for a
camp bed, and to stand beside it with the door closed, and little else. The reason this view sticks in my
mind is that the student whose misfortune it was to spend his life in that
room, was apparently going mad, as he had drawn on the wall, in ink, the
outline of his erect penis.
Actually I did live in something just as bad, in
the downmarket Sunset district of San Franciscio the summer before I began
graduate studies in math at Berkeley:
I lived, literally, in what had been a pantry, just off the kitchen that
was now a communal kitchen for everyone who roomed at the dwelling.
Another instance of students pickled and packed-in
like kippers:
Israeli students find affordable housing —
in metal boxes
Three
years after mass protests against living costs, a student village made of
shipping containers rises.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-students-find-affordable-housing-in-shipping-container-apartments/2014/11/03/0349cf5e-5f9a-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html
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