The housing disaster within the San Francisco Bay Space has gotten so dangerous that one startup is now providing renters the possibility to stay in a “bunk mattress pod” with 13 different folks for simply $800 a month.
Brownstone Shared Housing posted an advert for anybody seeking to stay in Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley and the house of Stanford College.
Tenants are given the chance to shack up in a home with 13 different folks. They sleep in a “bunk mattress pod” whereas sharing two bogs.
The pods are “totally outfitted” with electrical shops, cabinets for books, a rack from which one can cling garments and laundry, hooks to hold crops and different decorations, and black curtains on the finish of every pod for privateness.
Usually, the three-bedroom residence would home a single household.
The startup can also be promoting “co-living” areas in one other residence — this one in Bakersfield. The house gives a pod for $500 a month alongside 5 different residents.
Brownstone Shared Housing, like another California-based company PodShare, gives “versatile month-to-month leases” with no safety deposit.
Christina Lennon, who co-founded the startup, lived in an analogous pod herself for the previous yr.
“The wooden form of permits for rest, somewhat than like going inside this futuristic-looking plastic object,” she told Business Insider.
“It has, like, undoubtedly a special really feel — I might say that it’s extra calming and soothing for folks.”
James Stallworth, the CEO of the corporate, informed SFGATE that there are plans to broaden operations within the Bay Space.
“There’s a variety of want for housing within the Bay Space, and we’ve had a variety of residents and landlords attain out to us.”
Web customers reacted negatively to posts shared concerning the pods. One Reddit user known as it a “dystopian future we’ve all been asking for.”
One other Reddit consumer commented: “I’ve lived like that….on a warship.”
Palo Alto has turn into one among America’s costliest cities to stay in. In line with the positioning RentCafe, the typical price of renting an 881-square-foot residence within the metropolis was $3,468 a month as of February.
That’s well above the national average of $1,628 a month.
California is affected by a extreme housing scarcity brought on by zoning legal guidelines that forestall municipalities from constructing a adequate variety of high-density residences like duplexes or residence buildings.
In March, the College of California, Berkeley, introduced that it could cap scholar enrollment after irate neighbors filed a lawsuit stopping the college from constructing campus housing to accommodate incoming freshmen.
The statewide housing disaster in California has additionally led to a surge in the number of homeless people dwelling on the streets.
