Posted on 12/22/2016 9:20:24 AM PST by Perseverando
Last year we noted, via the Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, that rents in San Francisco and surrounding areas had grown so out of control that even Ivy Leaguers, like 31 year old Luke Iseman of The Wharton School, were having a hard time making ends meet. After growing tired of renting a run down, tiny apartment for $4,200 per month, Iseman decided to take a novel approach to housing. So he rented out a warehouse space and filled it with 11 steel shipping containers that he now rents out as makeshift apartments for $1,000 per month. We learn more from Bloomberg:
Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container.
The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure. Legal? No, but he’s eluded code enforcers who rousted what he calls cargotopia from two other sites. If all goes according to plan, he’ll get a startup out of his response to the most expensive U.S. housing market.
Iseman collects $1,000 a month for each of the 11 structures parked in the 17,000-square-foot warehouse he rents for $9,100. Tenants include a Facebook Inc. engineer, a SolarCity Corp. programmer and a bicycle messenger
Now, billionaire California real estate developer John Sobrato is looking to implement a similar plan in Santa Clara to house a portion of the city's 6,500 homeless. The plan calls for converting 200 steel shipping containers into a mix of 160 and 240 square foot micro apartments that could then be rented out homeless and low-income families.
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then load them on a ship and send them to China.
...why not OBAMA’S brother lives in one
We can do that in Reno, as long as they promise to attach the containers to trucks and ship them to San Francisco
Where?
This reminds me of a cute little video I saw of a kind-hearted-but-stupid man who built a ‘home’ for a homeless women he kept seeing outside.
I thought- Is the city going to allow her to keep that right there on the street?
Are the neighbors going to like having a homeless shack on the street in front of her house?
Where will she use the bathroom? I imagine without running water and shower it will not have a pleasant smell shortly.
He would have been helping her more if he had taken her to a homeless shelter.
You read my mind
The filth will be unimaginable.
Housing has become so dire in SF that cheap illegal housing now makes the news...
Big f’n deal.
Standard accommodations for our troops in Iraq and AFG. Typically 4, sometimes 6 or 8 to a standard conex, with clothes in a wall locker out in the hallway for at least a couple of them
Perfect. If you want to build a compound for the insane and habitual criminals. A modern Cabrini–Green. What could go wrong?
I couldn’t afford $1000/mo rent. How the bleepin’ heck are the homeless going to afford it? Oh, never mind, the Santa Clara taxpayers will be footing the bill. And people wonder why their property taxes and sales taxes are so high. Come on, break it down into a spreadsheet for the taxpayers so they’ll know exactly where their money is going.
Bet Mr. Billionaire didn’t become a billionaire by giving away his money. Bet he’s banking on tidy profit from the county especially with not having to pay property taxes on the land.
Conceptually, this is one step away from the old Mongolian prison box. Could this be part of the master plan of a diabolical billionaire to eradicate the less-desirable elements of society?
Wait until those camp stoves catch the place on fire or they all die of carbon monoxide.
Typical knee-jerk liberal “solution” to a problem created by city statists.
After the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, I bet this place will be closed down soon. Pretty stupid to put it on the Internet.
At least they are bigger than the ‘sleep pods’ the libs tried in Tucson...:^)
They are a way to repurpose the containers, or as an architectural challenge.
Back when the Mythbusters were less overt in their politicking, I'd watch them.
They used one as sort of a bunker to contain any mishaps, and another to store a corvette with a dead pig in the passenger compartment for three months.
Old RR cars were converted into chicken “homes”. 1850
Welcome to Obamaville Shantytown.
Place them under interstates overpasses and it’s a plan...
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