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Why not?

Currently a little over 50% of my income goes to rent+utilities, then there's still food+transport to deal with. I'd gladly take 30% as it would actually give me some room to save instead of living paycheque to paycheque.

If my income were to improve where 30% is unreasonable, I'd just move back to flat-rate renting as I am now.

You'd need to make $2000/month for a cheap apartment (~$600/month) to be cheaper than this. And if you are, just move there.

Anyways, this is irrelevant; Marcel implemented a rent cap much before that.

There's max at $200. I guess it's enough to keep it running and maintained.

When you earn so much that these 30 % are more than usual rent, you are far from being homeless very quickly. Not to mention the 300 $ cap.

There's a cap of $200.

And places like this should have income caps, after which you need to move out. A good practice is a system where income has to be under one cap to move in and have to leave after making a different, higher cap. It lets people get a foothold and establish some savings to prepare to support themselves.

its literally what financial advisers tell people should be the upper bound for their housing costs and this is for low income individuals. they didnt pull the number from their own rear. so take the small good news were you can.

"A year ago, I was homeless. Now I have a home, I'm not on the street and I have peace because every place where I stayed before was temporary. Here there is very much a sense of community. Marcel has a heart and a passion for what he is doing."

People got homes. Ones that dont require them to starve themselves to death.

30% of income spent on housing is a perfectly reasonable number

I think it maxes at $200