[stellar678]

Among other things, I'd expect this is because YC is trying to break free of the idea that the only way to be a successful startup founder is to be a young, single, attachment-free man.

Successful startups are created by all kinds of people in all kinds of different life situations, and YC needs to be careful to be inviting to as broad an array of people as possible.

At the same time, I agree that dorm-style living (along with other nontraditional styles of living like mulitigenerational or multifamily units, cohousing, coliving, etc...) is a great idea and our culture should work to be more supportive of experimenting with housing. Especially, as you said, in areas with severely impacted housing markets.

[kortilla]

Are women unable to live in dorms?

[randomchars]

> young, single, attachment-free man.

Some YC founders bring their whole family with them. Also, at some point in life, living a dorm starts to sound like torture.

[_jal]

Many women have obvious, easily predicable concerns about sharing living space with unknown men.

[saagarjha]

Surely you could set up the spaces so that this could be much less of an issue?

[_jal]

Sure. Those are called "apartments".

[saagarjha]

Yeah, and then you put a couple of people of the same gender together in them…and now they're basically back to being dorms.