[appreciatorBus]

Sharing a fixed quantity of floorspace with more roommates isn't "easing a housing crunch", it's just accepting less floorspace, something we all do with commodities like floorspace.

What would actually ease a housing crunch would be more floorspace, so that floorspace owners had less pricing power.

[rhelz]

Living with 12 strangers isn't easing the housing crunch, it IS the housing crunch.