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Pat12@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world ·
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A country of roommates

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A country of roommates

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article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-in-10-years-will-canada-be-a-country-of-roommates/

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    Don’t worry many towns have laws against roommates I am sure with conservation fascism taking a hold in the world that this will soon be against the law period.

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      What towns have laws against roommates?

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        They used to be called brothel laws. They’re usually written as a limit to how many adults who aren’t related can share an address.

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          That’s interesting. Do you have a source?

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            https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/05/zoning-laws-nuclear-modern-family-definition/674117/

            https://www.freeadvice.com/legal/zoning-laws-on-unrelated-people-living-together-in-the-same-house/

            https://medium.com/fourth-wave/want-to-share-a-rental-with-roommates-in-some-places-thats-illegal-f3594c0b0c0

            https://www.floodlaw.net/landlords-beware-four-unrelated-persons-equal-a-rooming-house/

            https://evanstonnow.com/three-unrelated-rule-is-a-barrier-to-housing-affordability/

            I found these on “google” if you’ve ever checked that site out.

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              Ha. Thanks for doing my homework for me. I honestly don’t know what my original sources were… I’ve been aware of the existence of “brothel laws” for ages. I lived in a large intentional community (read: commune, but avoiding sexual connotations at least in a US context) for a long time and running afoul of brothel laws in the past was something I learned about there.

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                Ah I see where the confusion is. The original article referenced Canada. The brothel laws you sourced look like they’re from the US

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                  Funny but they have these affordable housing laws in the us and I know of at least on suburb whos answer was rescinding these type of laws. In in some ways their affordable housing solution was roommates.

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