$700 a month to live in a coffin where you can't even have sex.
A startup in San Francisco that rents out bunkbed-style pods large enough to fit a twin mattress is overwhelmed with demand for its $700-a-month living quarters. The company, Brownstone Shared Housing, operates out of a former bank in downtown San Francisco. The pods arewith a privacy curtain; rent includes internet, utilities, and access to shared bathrooms and a kitchen.have used an online application to apply for its remaining 17 beds.
The company was flagged last year by San Francisco officials for unauthorized conversion of an office building for residential. San Francisco officials have allowed existing residents to remain in the building, but they still cannot welcome new tenants. Brownstone submitted a new approval application hoping to convert the building to residential use back in July of this year.
Communal living situations are not unusual in San Francisco. For years there have existed “hacker homes” across the city where broke startup founders with a dream have shacked up in close quarters with others to save money and potentially meet like-minded individuals.
had a “climate that was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for AI safety,” saying that women have been taken advantage of and coerced into uncomfortable situations in which they feel a need to participate in order to be included in the AI race.have glamorized these types of living situations. And to be sure, the affordable housing crisis will require a whole host of creative solutions.
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