Posted on 05/07/2022 12:14:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In the latest sign that the U.S. housing shortage is reaching crisis levels, a Bay Area startup is offering bunk-bed style pods at $800 a month for up to 14 people to live in a single home.
Brownstone Shared Housing, an eight-month-old startup, bills itself as a short-term solution for students or people working on temporary jobs.
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Not much different from jail cells, except with more comfortable beds.
Didn’t the Japanese have something like that some 20 years ago?
If I were single and starting out in Palo Alto, I’d definitely consider it. It would allow one to rapidly save up for a down payment.
Where is all the money for the homeless going to?
Un
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OMFG.
Scene from Tokyo.....
Wow. I really have to raise my rates.
That’s a Tokyo thing. Meanwhile, we enjoy a home, 32 acres and a large shop building and attached mancave, for half that. Well, it was until we paid it off. Now it’s zero.
Nobody HAS to live in that area. They do it by choice.
Not a bad idea for a particular niche, but $800?? How about $250?
Do they tuck you into bed like Kramer did on Seinfeld?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x52os7x
Amazing. I lived 600 feet from Waikiki Beach. My rent was $75/mo. Lived in Boston’s swankiest neighborhoods and never paid more than $200/mo.
800 is way too expensive for a sleeping Pod.
How exactly did you manage that in the last 40 years? A studio apartment in the ghetto areas have been way higher than that for a very, very long time.
$800 will buy a lot of meth. Drug consumption is very elastic; a user can spend as much or as little as they have on product, so long as society feeds them and they have a sidewalk to sleep on. Democrats make it easy to live the life.
Since 2019, I’ve lived in an apartment made of container boxes (think trucking, shipping) and concrete that is two-story (bathroom downstairs), with a king-sized bed, sofa, walk-in kitchen, balcony, tv, washer-drier, paid utilities, mountain views and great year-round weather. My rent is $695/mo.
It’s nowhere near San Francisco. In fact, it’s not near the U.S. It’s in Panama, near Costa Rica. It’s where I chose to spend my retirement - living nicely on Social Security and pensions. It’s not opulence, but it’s not bad for the price.
They still do. Tokyo is a crowded place and not a lot of space.
Curtains that close for privacy.
Sure. Your cube neighbor has a booty call. Very private.
Is it safe?
How do they feel about Americans?
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