I've had a lot of luck with housing actually. The worst was first year out of residence I lived in a single room rented to me by the owner and resident of the house, a single woman. She didn't have much money but volunteered a lot at the dog shelter, and had two of her own dogs plus three others she was taking care of when I was there. There was constantly dog piss everywhere. At one point she developed a scheme to buy fruit at the farmer's market and resell it to people near campus for convenience, but that fell through quickly and she ended up with dozens of crates of fresh food rotting in her basement. She had me look after the two dogs she owned for a week and only gave me $20. I think the only way she stayed afloat was renting out rooms. The guy across from me was an alcoholic that hermitted in his room and left Youtube videos on repeat which sucked up all the internet.
I've had a lot of luck with housing actually. The worst was first year out of residence I lived in a single room rented to me by the owner and resident of the house, a single woman. She didn't have much money but volunteered a lot at the dog shelter, and had two of her own dogs plus three others she was taking care of when I was there. There was constantly dog piss everywhere. At one point she developed a scheme to buy fruit at the farmer's market and resell it to people near campus for convenience, but that fell through quickly and she ended up with dozens of crates of fresh food rotting in her basement. She had me look after the two dogs she owned for a week and only gave me $20. I think the only way she stayed afloat was renting out rooms. The guy across from me was an alcoholic that hermitted in his room and left Youtube videos on repeat which sucked up all the internet.