The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      The people here are bagging multiple six figures and the reason they are willing to sleep in a crash pad is they spend their waking hours in a luxury office or out at bars and restaurants. That’s just city life. Not the damn debtor’s workhouse. I’m amazed at the hysterics people are showing over this. Save your outrage for something that matters.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Like better city planing and the expectation of reasonable shelter for $700 a month?

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          The housing situation can absolutely be improved. But seriously: this is an improvement. Do you know how many $700 options there are in San Francisco? Try none. I paid $550 for a room in a flat last time I lived there - in 1998

          Cities should utilize high density housing styles. Shared living is one of those. But I understand that people paying $700 a month for a house with a backyard and garage - in Missouri - will naturally look at this price tag and think it’s robbery. On the other hand, these tech workers are making $500k much of the time.

          • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I laugh every time someone calls shit like this dystopian. I’m like ok so in one breath ppl like that claim this is hellish and in the next talk about how the only solution to housing shortages are housing density. Wtf do they think this is???

            Furthermore this is nothing compared to living in hong Kong.