Posted on 09/13/2019 11:25:39 PM PDT by aquila48
How much does it cost for bare minimum accommodations in San Francisco—i.e, a bed and a roof?
In the Tenderloin, that’ll be $60 per night, or $1,200 per month. That’s what the Southern California-based startup Podshare charges for one of its “pods” at the company’s first San Francisco locale.
According to the company, “A pod is a hand-built, high-end bunk bed complete with your own flat screen TV and night light.”
Renting with Podshare buys access to the bed and the communal spaces in the building in what’s essentially a hostel-like setup—complete with a dearth of privacy thanks to the wide open, multi-pod layout of rooms Podshare offers.
Vice reported on Podshare’s launch in 2012, the product of a father-daughter entrepreneurial pairing who say that their customers are single people who want a space to “focus on their startups and experience something new.”
Podshare cofounder Elvina Beck tells Curbed SF that staying in a “pod” is a way for renters to “experience a neighborhood or community before pulling the trigger on a longer term lease.”
The San Francisco expansion is the company’s first outside of Southern California. Along with Venice (also $60 per night), SF ranks as the most expensive “pod” estate.
Podshare’s Airbnb listing for the city promises “co-living [...] in the middle of downtown at Post and Hyde, behind a gate,” with 12 beds included.
(Excerpt) Read more at sf.curbed.com ...
Oh my, that is just horrible.
Startup rents or tents?
Army barracks are looking better and better.
Honestly I must live on a different planet than anyone that calls themselves an American if they find this acceptable in this nation.
Short of losing my entire existence in war, natural disaster or fire I would never live like this willingly.
I have volunteered in church homes that housed the homeless (Former convent housing.) that offered private bedrooms.
I’m really kind of glad these people are gathered in cities like San Francisco and hate the rest of us. I am thankful I never have to come in contact with them.
The Libcoms progressives are driving us back into Victorian slums - this is an expensive doss house. With the crap in the street I wouldn’t be surprised to see cholera breaking out with all the other medieval diseases.
Gross.
It’s like flying Southwest.
Not even a curtain to provide a tiny bit of privacy.
Why aren’t there any black people in that picture?
ICE detention centers would be a big step up from this human warehouse. How come AOC isn’t whining about living conditions in S.F.?
I wager not one of those women has ever been ravaged head to toe by a man with normal testosterone levels
A familiar environment ....lol....sans splittails
Leprosy has re-entered the USA.
It is sooo intellectual to live in communes. Idiots.
Don’t handle armadillos.
That would be disease central, everything from flue to HIV.
Ridiculous.
They used to have stro hotels in Chicago for people don on their luck. They were closed by the libs ins the 80s because rhey weren’t dignified.
Why rent a pod when you can commit a crime and get put into one for free?
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