A Van Down By The River

Mixing funny and depressing, here's a Gothamist post about one man's affordable housing alternative - namely living in a van:

When you realize that the $1300 you're forking over for rent results in an apartment the size of a shoebox, where are you to turn? In the case of a Brooklyn man, you buy a bread truck.

Of course, even that wasn't entirely affordable:

They were unable to settle in Manhattan because it was too difficult to find parking.

So, basically, a guy living in a parking space got priced out of Manhattan.

Oy.

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