An alternative to additions

 As I have discussed here, the apartments in Israel are small (yet expensive). It is not enough that we are told to be fruitful and multiply and have as many children as possible? That's quite a burden--let's be honest about it. Do we also have to pack 6 kids into tiny 3 bedroom apartments where they have no privacy ("How goodly are your tents Jacob"), no place to play or do homework, difficulty sleeping because of all the people in the room?

So what do people do? They build extensions onto their tiny little apartments. You see them all over town, rooms on patios, rooms on stilts, rooms hanging off of buildings.

Here they put a couch on the balcony and call it a den. 

This room looks like it's part of the building but it is an addition. 

These are the homes whose owners have the cash for construction. Many people do not.

Oftentimes, the neighbors object because the additions causes leaks or block the sun. Also disturbances are created as the workmen drill and hammer sometimes for months. 

Here's a permanent obstruction as somebody put in a storage shack in the only part of this parking lot where delivery and moving trucks could drive as elsewhere there's an overhang.

To the right of the shack you see a white moving truck that couldn't advance forward to the door of the building deeper in the parking lot, near the cars. The movers had to carry all the furniture and appliances an additional fifty feet.

Don't assume that these additions and storage sheds make the homes roomy. Living conditions are still not appropriate for the 21st century. 

Here's an alternative, stay in your home country where affordable housing is available. Don't move to Israel where surveys will list trouble with the Arabs as the #1 concern of the citizenry and getting Haredim into the army is #2. What about health care, jobs, and housing? Obsession with enemies precedes all that and Haredim are deemed enemies.