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The bathroom situation is even harder to fix, since even if you could find a bunch of tenants willing to share a bathroom across the floor (and you won't) you h
by bpodgursky 5y ago
The bathroom situation is even harder to fix, since even if you could find a bunch of tenants willing to share a bathroom across the floor (and you won't) you have to spend a lot of $$ to retrofit showers into the living space.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoI wonder if you could run plumbing through, then a secondary floor just above it so that the apartment floors are a foot above where the office space floor would have been. But the natural light is the biggest issue if you ask me. I would never buy an apartment without morning winter sun shining into every main living area. (North here in Australia)
- lrvick 5y agoMeanwhile I black out my windows because I keep a weird schedule and am normally bothered by sunlight indoors.
- barry-cotter 5y agoYou radically underestimate how many people would like to live in San Francisco. If barracks style dorms were legal they would fill up fast [1]. If Hong Kong style coffins/chickenwire cages with a mattress in them three feet high were legal they would fill up fast. The reason cheap housing doesn't exist is almost always that it is illegal. Banning flophouses, boarding houses, single room occupancy hotels; it's always about keeping property values up and poor people out. [1] These are known as hacker houses, are completely illegal, and actually exist in San Francisco.