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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Shipping containers are notorious for mice and rats.
“...Spur, Texas...”
Very interesting! Thanks for that.
I’ve seen these in China stacked three high.
In some big city, I think NYC, some years back - they refurbished an old luxury hotel that had set years abandoned - and made it into home for homeless - with group control - and residents employed in the work and maintenance (I.e. become invested and regain dignity and pride of place) - ...Many, with an address/phone ( to use for potential employees,) decent housing, WATER etc, got themselves up and on their feet - and went on to productive lives/jobs and able to move out on their own and make room for more - that should be explored. (There are empty hotels, and other buildings all over the states that could be redone for both homeless and vets...)
There is NO excuse for a country like ours to have tens of thousands of people - including vets and children - living on the streets - NO EXCUSE. NADA. (God is taking note “ as ye do unto the least of these, my children”” ) )
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=converted+shipping+container+homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc
Most “homeless” people are homeless because they are mentally ill and/or on drugs. They’re not going to set up any kind of housekeeping in an old conex container any more than they would in an apartment.
Spur and Tiny houses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIP5nDOhw8
http://inhabitat.com/texans-rethink-acceptance-of-tiny-house-movement-growing-in-spur-tx/
A Texan thru and thru, born and raised.
Shipping Container bump
Tiny houses needn’t be totally devoid of common sense rules. Code enforcement is a must in regard to plumbing, electrical, sleeping lofts atop load-bearing walls, etc.
To me, a “tiny” house is anything less than 800 sq. ft. and can be smart for retirees or loners on fixed incomes.
OTOH these young couples who think a marriage can survive in 150 sq. ft. with no storage space or privacy are truly nuts, IMO.
Retirees? Sorry, this retired person feels no desire to climb into bed after traveling alternative stairs. Believe the floor would be much safer than a high bed - less of a fall. If one had no aversion to heights or claustrophobia, then it might be considered. Tiny houses are like any other. Good points, and bad.
OMGoodness, I’ll say. That’s just insane. That’s 3rd world conditions. And Lord help the couples like me who Capital-N-Need extra space for medical equipment; 600 square feet is borderline cramped nevermind 150.
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