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I don't live in the city. I have friends and a job here. It doesn't seem like a solution to the problem to tell everyone to move to Ohio or something. And I know what it is to renovate a house. If it is a big enough job, you have to live (pay rent) elsewhere while you do the work. Otherwise, you still have huge material costs on top of your mortgage.
I didn't live elsewhere while I did the work. You don't have to, you just have to slum it for a while.
Sometimes you do have to, sometimes you don't. If it's a major enough renovation, it may actually be illegal to inhabit. I have lived in houses with no plumbing before. My wife and I are in our 40's and that just isn't going to work.