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."
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1970 car 2500 income 8933 ratio .2799 house 23800 ratio 2.664
2016 car 33560 income 62462 ratio .5373 house 321600 ratio 5.149
Not only does regulation radically increase the cost of goods, the Feds inflation scheme makes you think you're making more when your actually making less.
No, not at all.
Very “Khmer Rouge”; they even went so far as to remove the children from the parents (many of who were then killed because they had been polluted by Western influences), and raised the children themselves to be blind followers of “the organization”...
I remember the Turk issue in West Germany because it was meant to deal with the high unemployment among East Germans; rather than become a drag on Germany’s welfare state, they often never received citizenship (so some were willing to take the money and leave).
>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.
I don’t feel duped. We already knew that repealing Obamacare was going to be tough with a GOPe congress that rather liked it. Under Trump we’ve seen the first real push back on immigration since Ike with both enforcement and deterrence reducing the numbers coming in. Wall prep is well underway. Criminal aliens that preyed on our communities are being picked up in droves. Trump was the only GOP candidate that wasn’t in favor of massively increasing H1B(Looking at you Ted, with your 5000% increase) and stopping pay for play with it is a good first step.
In fact my biggest disappointment with stems from Trump unwillingness to rule the country by fiat like Obama did. Trump’s following the Constitution like he promised to do which means he has to work through congress instead of acting like a king on most issues.
Ireland and Scotland for a time were spared the brunt of the refugee crisis because of the lack of opportunities there; they saw no point in adding the world’s poor to their own. And yes, I can certainly believe that Switzerland (back in the day) were strict as well.
You’re right; I don’t think the Turks were given citizenship. It was a difficult time incorporating the east back in. One coworker of mine had a relative commit suicide when he realized the commie values he had grown up under were not true.
In times like these, we have no “Constitution” since too many “judges” and “congressmen” and MSM are controlled puppets by the trillionaire Deep State. With that kind of power to control most of our information and most people in positions of power, we need to ignore the Constitution so it can be RESTORED. Trump has to be dictator to restore the Republic. Only when the constitutional system is BACK, can we restore the system by only allowing constitutional acts.
We haven’t had Constitutional “Laws” (Just Laws) since 1912 and we need to reinsert that Constitution by FIAT!!!!! Nothing will happen if we try to “keep inside the irrational, unjust “laws” that are now in place-—forcing all these unconstitutional systems of controls-—whether the Dep. of Ed. or the IRS, NSA, CIA-—etc——all should be eliminated TODAY!!! They SYSTEM needs to be destroyed, which is what JFK knew and the reason he was killed by the CIA.
“Progressives” are so regressive.
Bring back the flop house!
The photos I see here are pure luxury compared to that.
That is certainly true. It is also true that most new companies like to hire IT people just out of college, so they can give them low wages and work them long hours. The employees often get an impressive resume and maybe stock options, so it is a trade off. Silicon valley is a place to work when you are young, but when you get married and want a family, you move away.
That ain’t living it’s existing.
A former co-worker moved to San Francisco and works in the city doing helpdesk work. He lives with 3 guys in a $$3,200 a month apartment. He thinks the price is great as he only pays $800. He takes a bus to work and back. He owns a car but has to park it in the street. No privacy, living with strangers, cannot ever afford a home there. Why bother?
That’s a shame; I remember East Germans were apprehensive because they’d heard decadence (pornography, drug abuse, and such) were rampant in the West. They weren’t sure how they’d cope with it...
Yeah, Trump has been in the White House for years and years & nothing seems to be getting done.
so they can be most like the robotized society their companies are creating
LOL! Exactly!
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