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San Francisco Techie Tiny-Bed Pods That Went Viral Violate City’s Building Code

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The front door of the unit requires a key to exit, which city inspectors say creates “a life safety issue.”

Safety regulations are important folks, this is not good.

The city should temporarily takeover collecting rent for these units and spend half paying contractors to redo all the locks (this is an existing process). I am so sick of slumlords, no more patience for this crap.

Everything about Bayarea housing feels so contrived.

All the space in the world to build, but all you're allowed is dystopian cells or millionaire mansions. Best weather in the world to walk outdoors, but walking feels miserable due to safety issues and car dependency sprawl. Putting homeless people in hotels is considered inhumane, but tent cities are alright.

It's housing people. We figured it out 100s of years ago.

People living in those millionaire mansions can explain how (or perhaps more importantly: why) things became that way.

But they may not want to shed too much light on that, I suppose. Wouldn't want to disturb their lifestyle any more than necessary.

This sounds like a good solution to me for the hordes of workers I have known who have set their families up in communities like Livermore or Gilroy, and commute TWO HOURS EACH WAY to the valley. These commuters often end up crashing on friend's sofas during the work week, and return home on weekends.

Really, this low-impact housing solution solves so many problems (traffic, pollution, displacement, sleepy commuters crashing their cars, lost productivity). It's shame it's not being done right (unlock-to-exit makes my teeth grind).

I suspected when they didn’t offer laundry they were putting bunks in offices and it wasn’t a real housing option.

"we're not trying to kill anyone, just make money"

--capitalists

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