Need a place in SF? 4Ft pods for $900 a month
10 years ago, maybe less an entrepenurial soul grabbed 4 houses in the Castro for .com employees and turned them into short term .com housing. Busted. Zoning laws broken. Tis is a step past that.
On the one hand the people pay to live there. On the other hand the wrong people are making the money. Further, I see a proof of concept for Homeless shelters. I guess 10,000 unhoused on the streets. 5,000 like the lifestyle on open air urban living and refuse shelter. The other 5,000 who knows what they think but politicians think differently and want to spend spend spend on “housing.”
California housing crisis: Tiny 4ft pods in San Francisco are rented for $900 per month - but resident claims you get 'cool, hacker' neighbors and the communal lounges 'are actually nice'
The California housing crisis sparked a creative alternative living concept which gives you a 4ft pod and a communal living area for $900 a month
San Francisco have launched an investigation into the new housing option because the developers may not have gotten the correct permits to carry out their plan
welcome to the 15 min city of tomorrow TODAY!!!!
Housing in California became so expensive that San Francisco residents have been willing to spend $900 on a 4ft pod to save money.
The California housing crisis drove a mass migration out of the state - with 500,000 more people leaving in a two-year-period than arriving.
Brownstone Shared Housing came up with a creative solution to overpriced housing with their communal living pods. Each pod is 3.5ft wide and 4ft tall - barely big enough to fit a twin mattress and not nearly tall enough to stand up in.
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The idea of tiny pod houses came from the Japanese 'coffin house' which was Tokyo's solution to housing the jobless during the country's recession in 2009.
According to the property-finding website Zillow, the average San Francisco studio apartment is a whopping $2,200 a month.
The median studio apartment in Palo Alto, home to tech tycoons and the center of Silicon Valley, is even more expensive at $2,300 a month. 3 engineers from Banaglore can share a studio. (AFFORDABLE FOR TECH SERFS)
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My brain went places with this post. 1) Very easy to lock someone in. 2) Oxygen is a requirement for health. Shut a door and people may suffocate in a very short amount of time. 3) They found a way to make even more from per square foot without any real investment. 4) Security. There will be no protection of anything - neither property nor person. 5) Slum lords would still be able to find a way to keep it 'slum' standard, by not maintaining the minimum standards for sanitation, plumbing, cooking areas, and the pods themselves. If you thought dealing with bedbugs or roaches was bad before, omgoodness! You ain't seen nothing yet! I see "Rat effect" all over this 'great idea' someone will be paid to promote.
Kuala Lumpur airport has stylish airport sleeping pods. Naturally the Stack fails to post images. :)