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Here's one proposal for affordable housing in San Francisco: modular units that are extremely cheap to assemble and can be combined into a much larger building.
by kevinburke 10y ago
Here's one proposal for affordable housing in San Francisco: modular units that are extremely cheap to assemble and can be combined into a much larger building.
The developer can have them here instantly and wants to build on a plot near Cesar Chavez and rent to the city. The city's not interested because the buildings are not built here and they'd be a little more expensive than existing SRO's.
http://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/31/13481254/micropad-tour-patrick-kennedy-prefab-homeless http://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/31/13481254/micropad-tour-patri...
- twelvechairs 10y agoWhy not just build an apartment block? Do you really need the flexibility of being able to move units out?
- jseliger 10y agoThe problem in SF is not the cost of physical building itself. The problem is zoning, permitting, legal, harassment lawsuits, etc.: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-of-two-town-houses/306334/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o.... Or see https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing. Fixing the problem is almost entirely about regulatory / legal issues.
- kevinburke 10y agoI guess that's why I left that comment: solutions exist, the problems are more about political will.