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Interesting.

I can see the angle of driving up prices and that disturbs me.

You'd have to be complete moron to not intrinsically know the information in that list as common knowledge and basic facts.

All you have to do is ask any crack head baby who grew up living in a hotel room with his mom and 4 other siblings. Ask those motherfuckers how cool that shit is. Or ask them if 80 sqft of space would matter if the walls were all white oak panel and the seating can transform into other other functional furniture. Think they would dig it if it were Hip?

John Bailo says

Size DOES matter: 'Micro-apartments' linked to psychological problems, domestic violence and drug abuse

• Can 'definitely be unhealthy' for people in their 30s and 40s

• Crowding-relating stress, like the type that may be caused from living in small apartments, can increase rates of domestic violence and substance abuse

• Children in small units can be 'withdrawn,' have trouble concentrating

This is the price we pay for putting all the financial burdens on the younger generations:
1. Out of control real estate prices
2. Out of control college tuition and fees
3. Using young adults to pay for old people's medical care (individual mandate without age brackets).

bg1 says

I can see the angle of driving up prices and that disturbs me.

Even worse, as the article points out, the prices go up...whether the apartment size shrinks or not!

So the principal argument for doing this, affordability, is not true.

What you end up with are bad, small, uninhabitable apartments, which are just as expensive as the larger apartments!

Get use to small spaces.We'll all soon be living in a cardboard box under an overpass.

Dan8267 says

3. Using young adults to pay for old people's medical care (individual mandate without age brackets).

Oh, Dan. We all know you're just pissed because you don't qualify for a subsidy in your overpaid IT job and you have a "What's in it for me?" attitude. The fact is that 87% of young adults will get federal subsidies to help pay their health insurance.

To start, about 90 percent of uninsured young adults will qualify for the law's more generous subsidies. Census data shows there are about 11 million Americans between 20 and 29. Eight-seven percent of them have incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty line, meaning they will qualify for some level of a tax subsidy or for the Medicaid program.

The bar on the far left represents the 4.83 million young adults who earn less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line and will become eligible for Medicaid. That entitlement program does not use the age rating provisions used in the private market, meaning that one-third of young adults won't interact with this part of Obamacare in any way.

The three bars in the middle show young adults who will become eligible for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Those subsidies will cap the young adults spending on health insurance as a percent of income. Let's take an individual who earns $22,240, which works out to 200 percent of the poverty line. That person would get enough tax subsidies so that, at most, he was spending $1,407 annually on health insurance (a $117 monthly premium). [The Washington Post, 2/11/13]

Sorry to ruin your rant with those pesky facts.