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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The real dystopia here is San Francisco outlawing using your land how you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No one should be building living pods and then packing them full of people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just read the article and I partially agree with you. It's bureaucratic bullshit reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So long as they get an actual factual address, then it's a good deal.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ok hot take, this is a perfectly valid move, 700 for location and a box to sleep in is a welcome option for many renters in the city. If there are shared spaces like kitchen baths etc this works.

If you want your own space, ok, this isn't for you, but this alleviates a ton of rental demand which could lower rents in aggregate if enough of these are built!

The alternative is your whole paycheck goes to rent and you retire a week before death, i'd be all for this if I were single.

Is someone making a profit? Most definitely, but I get a better option to run my career in the city, I'm down. Not only that, I hope this model picks up so more people can have the option.

My gripe here is the city, bitching about no windows when this is a pretty tangible solution to many renter's problems. Either fix it yourself or get out the way when others are addressing it.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m so sick of the coverage on this. There is a shared living space and bathrooms and shower, so it’s essentially a dormitory. Big whoop. Actually we could use more of such shared housing.

But then we wouldn’t be able to combine our hatred of tech workers with our complaints about the economy to turn this into a horror story.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the people utilizing these spaces are not the ones bitching. How odd...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah and while people are outraged at the squalor of it, they’re tech workers so no one’s actually concerned. It’s just an occasion to air one’s one bitching about the economy.

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