San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' 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.

  • Trollception@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You do realize a 500 sq ft studio apartment may run $2000/mo or more in that same area right? It's one of the most expensive places to live in the US

      • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        I don't argue that there aren't any better solutions, but SF is on a peninsula (called Yerba Buena if anyone cares) and is already the 2nd most densely populated city in the US, which is just to say that it's a limited space without a lot of options for housing short of building in more density.