[AlotOfReading]

What will distinguish these structures from slums in 10 or 20 years?

[red-iron-pine]

unless you're an owner and control the means of production anywhere you live will be a slum in ~20 years

[toomuchtodo]

Why is public housing in Vienna not slums?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[kube-system]

Because they are designed to be residential housing?

[ipaddr]

Marketing

[JumpCrisscross]

> What will distinguish these structures from slums in 10 or 20 years?

The neighbourhood. When I moved to New York in my twenties, I had roommates. Everyone had roommates. That meant sharing a bathroom and kitchen. Not only did this breed camaraderie and teach me to not be a dick, it also freed up cash so I could enjoy the city and save.

[supertrope]

Colleges call these dorms.

[blitzar]

They have a roof that isnt a motorway.

[AlotOfReading]

The context I'm referencing here is victorian flophouses and HK bedspace apartments, not American homeless encampments.