PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Rent in the Bay Area is unaffordable for many people, especially if they're starting a new job or working as an intern. A new concept -- sleeping in small, individual pods in a shared house -- is being tried in Silicon Valley.
"Our pods are actually eight feet tall, so it gives enough room for like bigger people and like also some wiggle room, so they're not like the Japanese capsules. They're a bit larger," said Brownstone Shared Housing Co-Founder Christina Lennox. She and co-founder James Stallworth wanted to address the need for affordable housing. They tried to do this in New York but ran into objections. Palo Alto doesn't set a limit on renters in a single-family house. They also found a cooperative landlord.
Residents are all in their 20's, getting started or doing internships. Luis Alsonso from Peru loves access to the kitchen. Sleeping in a pod is fine.
Should be cheap like Japan pods
Post it again and I’ll ask again, what’s the girls
GavinNewsom GavinsHotelCa
Soo...flop houses.
Like in China
So...hostels? only incredibly expensive?
This isn’t a new thing
Move? 🤷🏽♂️
Supply chains disruption and a lack of new housing is the cause of high prices for housing. Lots of demand, not enough supply.
You will own nothing and be happy or else -wef
Califórnia is turning a desgrace to living 😔
I mean, at least whoever’s living there can still pull dimes back to his place ‘nomsayin ?
Wow we are now China. Good job team !
Why would anyone want to live in that overpriced , crime ridden crap hole?
33 billion for Ukraine tho
This is what liberal vote for.
Funny how once newsome became gov, all of ca turned into frisco
I've seen the same thing in Japan, these beds seem bigger than the Japanese modules tho. It seems like it would be a bit like sleeping in a van but I bet the rent is higher.
In the next phase, residents must monthly provide 10% of their plasma to ensure high bandwidth internet access…. 🤷🏼♂️
You can blame the Democrats for over regulating the construction industry thus causing the housing shortage in SoCal.
There’s no cheap rent in the Bay Area
IDoTheThinking bay area is now japan?
This shit getting outta hand ….
Then move
GavinNewsom Well done sir. Here I thought how Biden destroyed the world faster than he was 'voted in' but bravo to you for destroying one of the best states ever. Ya did boy. Where's that $400 for gas you promised?
This started to happen in many areas with high end homes. Multiple families living in one home that may have 6 beds+. I Or they house multiple single people. These landlords are taking advantage of the market. cheaper to rent part of the home than to stay at a hotel long term.
WE NEED RENT CONTROL⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
Sounds like china. Way to go socialist lawmakers.
Come for the innovative street drug markets, $15 cocktails and exciting sideshows, stay for the cozy pod living with strangers.
The new “American Dream”, Asian style sleeping pods. 👍🏼🙄
Apartment Pods in San Francisco for $800....been in Japan more than 20 years. ..welcome to reality ..🥵☹
This isn't housing. This is taking advantage of people in the worse way. Charging them so much just for a bed and a place to shower. There is no actual personal room and it puts a person in a compromised place.
It’s all going to collapse.
I swear they have rerun this same article every year for the last 20 years
And there will still be people defending this.
Pay ten thousand a month to get robbed shot killed no thanks
Try sleeping on a Navy ship. These look luxurious compared to that.
This is not a new concept. Japan, Hong Kong and maybe Singapore have had these pod dwellings for many years.
This is nothing to be proud. It’s cruel. Solidarity in prison offers more space.
Truckers passing through the Bay Area
A sleeping pod for 800 a month? We need to spread the businesses and industries across the country to get people to spread out instead of putting up with this bs
It’s so expensive outchea, but there is just no way I’d want to live in a locale this badly.
This is unacceptable … working people, with shit wages …living like slaves.
This would have never happened on Larry Elder's watch. 🙄
I paid $700 for a pod aka coffin for past 2 yrs
Nice a greater chance to get sexual assaulted, sick and half a level up from sober living. $800 is the cost of a studio. 14 people that's a mess waiting to happen.
Go somewhere more affordable or become more employable. Your call!
Bay Area has always been high housing $. But many there make over 100k.
It has existed in Tokyo or Hong Kong for long time, I saw it in Hong Kong a couple of years ago. I don't like it.
$800 for a Pod. Wowee.
Don’t worry newsom won’t care keep paying your taxes
boy….this country is hell
Prison?
So sad. Greed of Real Estate Agents keep charging more and more for apartments, houses and condos. No low income housing is important by city council. The state doesn’t care about affordable housing in cities.
I had a buddy who lived in this type of situation here in Hollywood. It's basically like a damn hostel tbh where u kept most of ur belongings in a locker in a common area. It was such a scam tho. Idk how bad it is in the Bay Area. But in L.A., u could def rent a bedroom for $800.
No arrest has been made at Hubert H Hubert Comprehensive Medical Center dental and the evidence is still in my teeth. Kenneth
I'm still illegally bugged and know one is doing anything about it. Law enforcement and fire department on 7th street downtown is still harassing me and lying about me. Military and FBI are involved. This is a serious problem.
Awesome shot of oh girl's backside. 😜
What's so special about the Bay?
Cool
Or you could build way more housing. 🤷♂️
Smart...smarter is rent to own. Smarter is investing in the property as buyers while Podding.
looks like they took a page out of japan. but japan is cramped and bay area is not...
Got to love liberal America
That's no way to live 😬
Beautiful. Get a pod that’s what the left wants for everyone. No lawns no single family homes just pods. Your kids will love their pods
I've seen people do this in China too.
Location is everything... I guess.
They do this in other countries already
Have they considered moving to a place that is a little more sane?
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