No, it did not.
If you don't make enough to pay for housing, obviously you either need a better paying job, or you need to move to an area you can afford.
I pay $850 for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. My son pays $850 for a 2 bedroom 2 bath, with a fenced yard, a garage and a separate (habitable) bunk house. Within walking distance to the beach.
When you can't afford what you want, you get creative...most people I know have at some point shared housing with other people. I've known as many as three families who lived together in a single large dwelling. And it wasn't a drug house, either. Lots of time this is the way immigrants start out...they rent housing with friends and family, everybody pools their resources for groceries, everybody shares the utilities. And everybody saves their money until they can BUY THEIR OWN. I can't tell you how many Hispanic families I've known who have started out this way so they could put a down payment on a place that they could afford (usually a tiny little fixer upper...)
Anyway, it can be done. Necessity is the mother of invention, and these are the issues that people have to deal with when they're adults and struggling to live on a budget.