Little John’s galvanized steel homes are a landlord’s worst nightmare
thefader.comAfter 20 years of hard work, Little John is still having a hard time finding affordable housing in the big city. Like the most young adults, he’s been royally fucked by a combination of stagnant wages, high inflation rates, and rapidly rising rental costs in pricy markets like Shanghai and New York City.
The odds are already stacked against him, but TikTok’s favorite fictional building contractor — in garish teal and pink florals — is still determined to join a shrinking class of young homeowners, even if his entire life savings buys him two safety straps attached to a door on a zero square meter ledge.
He has big dreams of having a place to call his own and is determined to make it work, regardless of structural integrity, area measurements, or what his landlord, HOA board, or the rest of the co-op has to say about his “unhinged home designs.”.
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