Summary
A growing number of Americans are seeking shelter in budget motels due to rising rents and home prices, with families experiencing cramped, unstable living conditions.
In New York’s Hudson Valley, over 550 families with children lived in motels in 2023, a 21% increase from 2018.
High costs, safety concerns, and limited housing options make escaping this cycle difficult.
Advocacy groups warn motels are an unsustainable solution as housing costs outpace wages, while waitlists for subsidized housing and vouchers remain long.
America will get there.
Seriously I’d love hotels like this $9.99 a night in central Tokyo. If they had something like this in NYC, it would open up so many economic opportunites for regular people to establish employment, and move up on the economic ladder.
I stayed in a capsule like that on an overnight ferry when all the cabins were booked. It beats sleeping in a recliner seat.
My wife had a hard time sleeping because of someone snoring loudly in the capsule next to her, but I slept like a log.
They should be sound proof or at least monitored by a snore attendant. Or just have a snoring/no snoring section. Maybe I should get into pod management.
You joke but I’d love that for traveling
Seriously. I wish they had these on planes.
I can’t sit in a chair very long so I haven’t tried to go overseas yet.
i mean they exist… i almost stayed in one in berlin last summer