Posted on 03/11/2017 8:11:40 AM PST by simpson96
Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds.
Dejah is a resident of The Negev, a communal living space that styles itself as a home for millennial tech workers to brainstorm ideas, write code and create apps, even if they have to share toilets and bathrooms with dozens of others. (Related photo essay: here)
Houses like The Negev, located in a neighborhood known as "SoMa" or South of Market, have cropped up around San Francisco as an influx of young professionals, many of whom are tech workers, have faced the city's notoriously high rents and apartment shortages. It has three floors and roughly 50 rooms, filled with bunk beds, beer bottles and laptops, according to residents.
Dejah, born and raised in New York, graduated last year with a degree in computer science and math from McGill University. Unemployed, he moved to California six months ago and found his room at The Negev on Craigslist.
"I thought New York was expensive," said Dejah, who quickly landed a job as a virtual reality engineer at consulting firm moBack. "It's basically an extension of college. We sort of live in a frat house." (snip)
Housing advocates have complained that this new dorm-like style of living has pushed up rents and forced longtime residents to move out.
Alon Gutman, who co-founded a company called The Negev and began leasing the building on Sixth street in 2014, said, "We have never made somebody move out of that building," adding that his tenants pay 30 percent to 50 percent less than others in the neighborhood.
"We are trying to solve the housing crisis and increase density in a positive way."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Here's the one room you get to yourself, for $1900/mo.
Sort of like the hippy communes that started the big move to San Francisco as the druggie capital of the world
I don’t think these people have any interest in “growing up”. They want to remain college kids.
This is not new in the Bay Area. in 1996, I knew of 24 people living in a 4 bedroom house. Hot bunking....
A better idea would be to negotiate with a hotel or motel for a room. For a cheaper monthly rent, you can offer to pay a portion if the electric and water costs.
H-1B. Kill it!
They’re working in an environment where they can’t hope to afford the housing; what are they supposed to do? Just part of the “Third-Worldization” of the US - you know, when they said our standard of living would have to fall to match the rest of the world in the new global economy?
Here on the east coast I see similar deterioration for young people in terms of available jobs and high housing costs (driven by high property taxes); Uber is a perfect fit here because 1) the often-foreign driver needs help paying for the car, and 2) the often-American passengers can’t afford to either buy or insure a car. This “sharing” is another indication of Third-Worldization...
Communes . . . coke in the 1960s, code in the 2000s.
“H-1B. Kill it!”
BUMP!
Get the feeling conservatives have been duped? Silence on H1B.. amnesty for dreamers, Trillion dollar stimulus with free daycare.. whatever gains we have made, are clearly temporary. They could repeal ocare today, they aren’t doing that either. Still the do nothing congress.. o wait, they are pushing ocare light.. as um phase one of their plan.
Those are old residential hotels on skid row in S.F. Sounds like they have kicked out the dopers and cater to the tech bros now.
Trump and the beltway GOP are playing a game of chicken. The GOPe are trying to weaken Trump enough they can seize control of the agenda, IMO. With Democrat votes if necessary.
Like East German hotel rooms. Get used to it children, this is the future voting for marxists has brought us. Many of you will live in cardboard boxes on the side of a road before this is over, and will count yourselves lucky. Keep votin for the dims that will put you in that box.
And few are prudent about saving to own their own place, or for their retirement. They want to 'live the life'...and we and their responsible peers will end up paying for them later in their lives.
Smart people too dumb to figure out how supply and demand works.
The millennials I deal with don’t live in cities (where a car can be more of a burden than it is worth); they live in suburbs in which cars are practically a necessity. These aren’t high-paid tech, doctors, or financial types - just regular people working regular jobs. Like me, the few times they eat out it is off a dollar menu from a fast-food chain. Businesses that used to cater to this demographic are suffering; many of their bars have been replaced with “bracero bars” for the illegals here, and costlier restaurants have a lot less customers.
Most are H-1b indentured servants. They can’t shop for higher wages.
Here on the east coast I see similar deterioration for young people in terms of available jobs and high housing costs (driven by high property taxes); Uber is a perfect fit here because 1) the often-foreign driver needs help paying for the car, and 2) the often-American passengers can’t afford to either buy or insure a car. This “sharing” is another indication of Third-Worldization...
Nice post. I'd been wondering what was driving the "sharing economy" meme.
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