San Francisco says tiny sleeping βpods,β which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.
Ugh. Bougie homeless. Just sleep in your car like normal people. π /s
I do want sleep pods at airports.
Shower pod at the Paris airport was the best layover Iβve ever had. You pay in 30 minute increments but so nice to get refreshed when youβre traveling across the Atlantic.
Well in San Francisco, a car is something that a robot learns how to navigate around the city streets.
$700 for this is insane. I get why theyβre doing it but thereβs no reason anyone should pay $700 for a bed.
San Francisco should build their own get that shit up to code, make it about 30 stories, have spots for restaurants, stores, retail at the bottom and make it actually affordable and for everyone. There should be no market for 700 a month 4 foot tall boxes. Greedy fucks.
Shit should be like $50 a month max and yea itβs dystopian AF but if people want to do it I guess whatever. Just donβt rip them off.
Just what is shown in the photo would get you $7000 a month⦠why rent out 2-3 houses when you can rent out 10 boxes I guess.
I mean you pay 700 dollars a month not to have to live next to people who can only afford 50.
Hell, under my plan $700 will at least get you a walk in closet sized living box with a mini fridge.
I could live in a place that big and be happy, I think, as long as the bathrooms were clean and I had easy access to food.
I lived in a YMCA for a while. I had a very small room with a bed, a small dresser, and a kitchen chair. You couldnβt sit on the chair of the door was open. I had no fridge so I would keep things on my window sill outside (it was late Fall) but crows kept stealing the food. Worked well for drinks.
The bathrooms werenβt great but I was a breakfast cook going in at 4:30am so I was living opposite other people.
I heard crazy stuff in there. There was a guy who was really mentally ill and prone to raging out. One night he was storming up and down the hall yelling βthis isnβt a hallway, itβs a trap!β over and over. That was scary. Other crazy stuff happened because a bunch of other people were staying in two rooms and were really into coke or something (this was a long time ago) and theyβd come home after last call, run out of coke, and start arguing over who was holding out, who had had more than their share, did anyone have money, etc. Sometimes they would fight.
I was only there for about six weeks before I found a better place but it kept me from being homeless after I had to move out of a place with one day notice (hotel employee residence, my roommate had an opposite shift to me and had been violating rules left and right and getting written up so the evicted us both with very little warning). Anyway, I was lucky to get in there, I couldnβt afford an apartment. I eventually was able to explain to the hotel security that I had no idea what was going on and signed a paper saying I was out on the first infraction and got back into residence.
Good times.
Ok hot take, this is a perfectly valid move, 700 for location and a box to sleep in is a welcome option for many renters in the city. If there are shared spaces like kitchen baths etc this works.
If you want your own space, ok, this isnβt for you, but this alleviates a ton of rental demand which could lower rents in aggregate if enough of these are built!
The alternative is your whole paycheck goes to rent and you retire a week before death, iβd be all for this if I were single.
Is someone making a profit? Most definitely, but I get a better option to run my career in the city, Iβm down. Not only that, I hope this model picks up so more people can have the option.
My gripe here is the city, bitching about no windows when this is a pretty tangible solution to many renterβs problems. Either fix it yourself or get out the way when others are addressing it.
Edit: lots of group think and virtue signalling here. If these arenβt there you donβt even have the choice, itβs 5k rent or move away from the city. Thatβs not bootlicking thatβs fact. Whining about landlords being greedy isnβt a solution, and this is.
ugh, this is dysphorian THIS IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL. THIS IS LATE STAGE CAPITALISM
Late stage capitalism? They were doing shit like this in the 1800s. It IS capitalism.
Like, seriously. Itβs always been a thing.
In the 1800s, you could rent a space on a rope overnight so that you could drape yourself over it and have a place to sleep that night that wasnβt on the freezing, urine-soaked ground.
This has long been an issue.
Speaking of the relative cost of housing, you can buy an actual whole house in other parts of the USA for that much a month. That could be a 30-year mortgage payment on a 100k house.
In San Francisco/Bay Area that doesnβt even cover a parking space per month.
In the US, the average home price sold was $495k. Where can you find a $100k house that doesnβt need a tear down or complete renovation?
Ok obligatory fuck late stage capitalism. That said, hot take, this is a perfectly valid move, 700 for location and a box to sleep in is a welcome option for many renters in the city. If there are shared spaces like kitchen baths etc this works.
If you want your own space, ok, this isnβt for you, but this alleviates a ton of rental demand which could lower rents in aggregate if enough of these are built!
The alternative is your whole paycheck goes to rent and you retire a week before death, iβd be all for this if I were single.
Is someone making a profit? Most definitely, but I get a better option to run my career in the city, Iβm down. Not only that, I hope this model picks up so more people can have the option.
My gripe here is the city, bitching about no windows when this is a pretty tangible solution to many renterβs problems. Either fix it yourself or get out the way when others are addressing it.
This kid must be like 17-18 and has seen none of the world. This would be luxury to half the planet.
βA big hitβ with people who desperately need accommodation that wonβt bankrupt them.
Yeah i love how every negative was couched within a sentence mentioning how popular and great these pieces of shit are
A pod for sleeping at home: π A pod for sleeping in a hotel: π A pod to rent for cheap on vacation: π
A pod is your fucking home: ππππππππππ
I imagine this is more like the Japanese coffin hotels. They are for salary men that work too late to take the trains home.
In this case, probably for people who donβt want to do the 1-1.5hr each way to their βjust affordable enoughβ commutter home every day. I doubt these are many peopleβs long term permanent address.
$700/mo is excessive though.
Itβs actually an entire shared living space with a common room, bathrooms, and shower. Not comparable to coffin hotels which are not for extended living. You could absolutely live in these long term. Itβs essentially a dormitory. Tech workers fresh out of college probably adapt to them just great. You canβt live anywhere else in SF for $700 and you donβt live in the City to stay home anyway. People living in these spend their time working at lavish offices and going out partying and wining and dining. This is a place to crash, and not even a bad one.
Yay a in city version of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkhouse Or a western version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment Or a adult/non criminal (for now) version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
This sort of thing is not new and generally not a flex on the state of things.