Original title "Young Man, There's (Not) A Place You Can Go: The Death of YMCA Housing & What Japanese Internet Cafés Can Teach Us" compressed to fit within title limits.

I remember a hero of mine saying, "that if you need help go down to the YMCA-- they have excellent facilities."

That man was Hank Rutherford Hill. He recently got back from an assignment in Saudi Arabia.

Excellent article! Well sourced and logical. Thank you.

As an illustration of where housing laws left SROs, I highly recommend this fantastic documentary on the last SROs in downtown Chicago - “Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels” (2018). It turns out that a lot of the residents are elderly retirees… which says a great deal about how changes in housing laws can follow a generation ‘til they die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YbjKxdfE8Q