A solution to affordable housing... that Americans just don't seem to like.

[Chainfire]

41. I made choices when I was young that allowed me to choose how I live out my final years.

I came from a dirt-poor family. My father never owned a home and his claim to fame was being the mean town drunk and deadbeat. He died when I was 16 and it was a good riddance. I got no help after age 17, and very little before. After a stint in the Navy, I worked my ass off as a construction worker to build a better life for my family than my parents had. I rose in my work by being the first man on the job and the last to leave. If everyone else was producing two units, I produced three. I married a very smart young woman and, together, we put her through a master's program. I don't feel guilty about my modest success.

I have the greatest compassion for people who have fallen so far as to have to live under bridges, most of whom suffer to some degree from mental illness and were abandoned by Republicans who didn't want to pay for treatments. Society has abandoned them to their fate.