[TightyRighty]

Where do you live? In Fresno, CA - where I live - this is what $855 will get you:

It's called the Vagabond Inn and it's in Downtown where all the hookers and crack whores live.

[achilles2000]

Here is a link to the 2007 rental cost data in Santa Paula, which is where she lives: http://www.city-data.com/housing/houses-Santa-Paula-California.html

Note that the mode was just over $600 for the rental data BEFORE the housing crisis collapsed the market (you have to scroll quite a ways). It is nice that she gets to live in a subsidized townhouse, but a small apartment or trailer would do - not as comfortably as the townhouse, I’m sure - but she hasn’t earned that level of comfort.

I used to live in CA (East Palo Alto,Pleasant Hill), but could see where it was going and left.

[achilles2000]

I made a mistake in the reply, I should have said that even during the boom there were plenty of rentals available in the $450-$650 range, not that the mode of the rentals was just over $600. Sorry for the confusion.

[Old Professer]

That should save on taxi fares to get to the redlight district.