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For $700 a Month, Sleeping Pods Make SF More Affordable
- apothegm 6mo agoSomeone remind me: which work of dystopian science fiction are we living in this week, again?
- d_silin 6mo agoDefinitely of cyberpunk genre.
- ggm 6mo agoThe one where soylent emerges before massive overpopulation and lack of food and housing. Who knew we wanted it?
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- unmole 6mo agoI don't think NIMBY capture and restrictive zoning regulations are popular distopian SciFi tropes.
- rawgabbit 6mo agoBladerunner is our future.
- m8ven 6mo agonot a bad option for hacker pods. mostly working anyways
- vivzkestrel 6mo agonon american here with a stupid question: why doesnt san fransisco build vertically? like 50 storey buildings
- postalrat 6mo agoBecause that might harm retirement accounts of the rich.
- toast0 6mo agoThere are some 50 story buildings. But cost increases pretty dramatically. Especially when you build on fill and mess up the foundation work [1]. There's a fairly consistent stream of tall buildings built over the years, not all of them are 50+ floors though [2]. There's gaps in building during economic distress, as you would expect. Because of the expense, high rises are either offices or luxury homes. It doesn't make sense to build a 50 story flop house. Zoning also pushes you to build high rises in the neighborhood of other high rises, and land is expensive there. All in all, better to build a 6-12 story midrise flophouse in a cheaper part of town. Also, from looking at the street view, and what a listing site said, it's pretty clear this particular 2 story building is pretty old (1919), and the neighboring buildings have been built up, but this one held out. Chances are, one day, a new, larger building will replace or subsume it. That's the circle of life, as happened to its neighbors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisc... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_S...
- avemuri 6mo agoI'm not sure about the cost. A lot of Mumbai's middle class housing is 30-40 floor towers. These are flats that sell for well under 200k, most under 100k. Labor cost is lower in India, but most material and equipment costs are not.
- OkayPhysicist 6mo agoAnother cost difference that you're not accounting for is building code. It would be entirely unacceptable for an SF skyscraper to fall down in a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Likewise, fire safety is a huge factor in the US, and especially in California. Safe evacuation routes for people get more and more difficult to provide when the number of stories climbs higher, too.
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- localhoster 6mo agoI rent in my country (first world) for 1000ish. I get a 60 sqmt home with garden And two rooms. It saddens me that the usa startup culture gave us this.
- DonsDiscountGas 6mo agoIt's more NIMBY culture that's doing it
- tiew9Vii 6mo agoThey say sleeping pods, I say those photos look like any backpackers hostel the world over only with a curtain around the bed. Only difference is anyone in a backpackers hostel knows it's temporary cheap accommodation and doesn't try to glorify it making it in to something it's not.
- jgoewert 6mo agoReminds me of the PGs in Bengaluru, but way worse since there aren't sound dampening walls.
- euroderf 6mo agoHow is this (or not) a suitable thang for the homeless folks ?
- tim-tday 6mo agoYou forgot a word in your headline. “For $700 a Month, Sleeping Pods make SF more affordable, dystopian”