This is interesting and I am interested in it. (I live in the distant far reaches of southbay which makes my interest maybe less relevant than it could be.) I see a few major sticking points.
If not everyone is paying their own way, a sticking point is the arrangement of who pays how much, accounting for the fact that individual people’s desire to pay for individual other people may change over time, and people’s financial situations may change over time, and kicking people out of their housing on short notice is bad, and housing in the bay area is already very expensive so the prospect of paying a premium to subsidize others, especially unspecified others, may be unpalatable.
As you say, dispute-resolution: It will be necessary to regulate people’s behavior and it will sometimes be necessary to expel people, and this is the usual problem of expelling people from communities—which is already so hard that communities typically handle it poorly it and are sometimes destroyed by either doing it or failing to do it—except that money and people’s housing will be at stake in this case, which not only raises the emotional stakes significantly (as if they weren’t bad enough), it adds financial and maybe legal stakes as well.
This is interesting and I am interested in it. (I live in the distant far reaches of southbay which makes my interest maybe less relevant than it could be.) I see a few major sticking points.
If not everyone is paying their own way, a sticking point is the arrangement of who pays how much, accounting for the fact that individual people’s desire to pay for individual other people may change over time, and people’s financial situations may change over time, and kicking people out of their housing on short notice is bad, and housing in the bay area is already very expensive so the prospect of paying a premium to subsidize others, especially unspecified others, may be unpalatable.
As you say, dispute-resolution: It will be necessary to regulate people’s behavior and it will sometimes be necessary to expel people, and this is the usual problem of expelling people from communities—which is already so hard that communities typically handle it poorly it and are sometimes destroyed by either doing it or failing to do it—except that money and people’s housing will be at stake in this case, which not only raises the emotional stakes significantly (as if they weren’t bad enough), it adds financial and maybe legal stakes as well.