I think public policy experts sorely underestimate how many individuals have more than 1 apartment for themselves.

Here in Los Angeles, I know a handful of people that have apartments in radically different parts of the city, just for practicality and convenience. Just renting. Nothing anybody brags about given how awkward struggling people will make that, but if you got it like that there is no reason to experience LA, you can totally exempt yourself from the commutes and hellishness and have somewhere to decompress in whichever part of the city you are in. I've sublet for months this way too, while retaining a headquarters that I rent elsewhere.