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Some San Francisco Tech Workers are Renting Cheap 'Bed Pods'


An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate: Late last year, tales of tech workers paying $700 a month for tiny "bed pods" in downtown San Francisco went viral. The story provided a perfect distillation of SF's wild (and wildly expensive) housing market — and inspired schadenfreude when...

An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate: Late last year, tales of tech workers paying$700 a month for tiny "bed pods" in downtown San Francisco went viral. So Brownstone Shared Housing is still renting one bed pod location — but not accepting new tenants — after citations for failing to get proper permits and having a lock on the front door that required a key to exit. And SFGate also spoke to Alex Akel, general manager of Olive Rooms, which opened up a co-living and co-working space in SoMa earlier this year (and also faced " a flurry of complaints.

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