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Inside San Francisco’s Newest Rentals, Bunk Beds For $1,800 A Month
Can’t afford an apartment in San Francisco? So-called “co-creative housing” is offering a bunkbed and lots of company. But is it legal? KPIX 5 wasn’t invited in. The only way to check it out was undercover. Heidi’s moving into her new digs. KPIX 5 asked her to go into a building in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District undercover to get an unbiased taste of a new kind of rental: It’s a bunkbed that she’s sharing with a stranger in a house with 30 other people.
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I wonder if this will eventually become the norm?
What, taking advantage of desperate people? It already is.
This is what happens when a city bends over backwards to bring in a new industry on a massive scale without bothering to build the residential infrastructure to support it.
In fact the city actively prevents housing from getting built with bizarrely stringent zoning laws. Most buildings aren't allowed to go over 4 stories tall and there are numerous areas with large vacant lots just begging to have housing built but can't because of silly legal issues.
Heck, many of the larger tech companies have offered to foot the bill to build housing for their employees but San Fran turned them down.