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blinks You can rent an apartment for that in lower cost of living areas. Like, 500-700 square feet. And won't have the risk of city zoning being upset about
by Syonyk 2y ago
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You can rent an apartment for that in lower cost of living areas. Like, 500-700 square feet. And won't have the risk of city zoning being upset about it lurking over your head, which seems to be the case here.
> The approval was rescinded over a misrepresentation of how many of the beds in the facility were deed-restricted affordable housing, Sider said.
> “The building remains in violation of the planning and building codes, and while we continue to work with the proprietor to move his applications forward, we expect him to honor his agreement not to have new tenants move in until the issue is resolved, which should happen very soon,” Sider said.
- moralestapia 2y ago>in lower cost of living areas You mean elsewhere in SF, or elsewhere in the planet?
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoEven the suburbs are pretty expensive around SF. Honestly these $700 pods are the cheapest options in the Bay Area.
- awongh 2y agoCan you get a 500 sq ft apartment for $700 in the USA? My impression was that it’s gotten more expensive than that. Definitely for a 2nd tier city. Maybe not for an n tier city….
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- smeej 2y agoYou can in Indianapolis. I guess I don't know how people determine "tiers," but Wikipedia tells me it's the 16th largest U.S. city.
- kulahan 2y ago5 years ago in Alabama, I rented a 1200 sq ft apartment for $750/mo. This was in Prattville. No clue if it's still that cheap, but yeah, $700/500sqft is super believable. In a *city* of population > X?
- htrp 2y ago1200 sq ft apartments are now 1100 at the cheapest to 2k on average in Prattville Alabama.
- Syonyk 2y agoSure. I found a handful in smaller towns in Iowa without any trouble. Even in Ames, Iowa (home of Iowa State University, 65k people per the 2020 census and I'm not sure how many of ISU's 30k students that counts), I'm finding a range of apartments in the $700-$800 range that are 500+ sq ft. On Zillow, so hardly the best pricing one is likely to be able to arrange. Now, it's not San Francisco, but the point is that even in a not-tiny-town, an apartment (or even some smaller standalone homes!) for the cost of a twin mattress sized sleeping pod is totally doable.
- awongh 2y agoI looked on Zillow and there are indeed some places at that price. I looked here to find other places I'm familiar with: https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 and found that Ames is somewhere near Cupertino haha. I wonder how it compares to other places in the USA in terms of affordability and what the other dimensions of price are in the same price range. (For example Cheyenne WY also similar in population.) Ames, IA I would say qualifies as n tier in the sense that it seems like it's a suburb of Des Moines? And Des Moines is probably a fourth tier city?
- Syonyk 2y ago... "near Cupertino" in population, not geographically. Okay, that makes much more sense. It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles north of Des Moines, through an awful lot of rural Iowa. I'd consider a "suburb" to be "generally built up when traveling between A and B," though there's some flexibility in that definition. But Ames is its own place from Des Moines.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoThat used to be the case for where I live, but no longer. And I live in a pretty damn cheap area (semi-rural Wisconsin). Cheapest apartments here now go for $950 plus.