[jollyllama]

Perhaps they entered a price-increase death spiral as they were saddled with free-riders as the operator in TFA says.

[IncreasePosts]

Even the article from 1996 is $10/day | $300/mo which would easily afford you a room in a cheaper neighborhood back then (I'll have to trust the HUD reports from 1996 since I was a child at that point with no direct experience)