There's a lot of cool stuff in this article, but also a lot of hypocrisy. Moving to New York for the Occupy movement and then staying to squat sounds kind of fun or idealistic when you're 25 and a very light burden on society, but it just doesn't work if you're, say, 50 and you've just been laid off for a (non-squatting) 25 year old. Paying $135 a week for rent and being an example in a poverty article is sort of a joke. It's cheap rent for sure, especially in NYC, but that's all it is. It's not a lifestyle, it's being intelligent and not going beyond your means. And the guy in the "Hobbit hole" ... hopefully his kids can go to college. I get that this hypocrisy is given lip service in the article; I read the whole thing. But I can't help feeling that it's a bit mocking to America's actual poor. Maybe I'm off base.