For $700 a Month, Sleeping Pods Make SF More Affordable

Someone remind me: which work of dystopian science fiction are we living in this week, again?

not a bad option for hacker pods. mostly working anyways

throw in some Soylent and a Macbook to lease...

Because that might harm retirement accounts of the rich.

There 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_Francisc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_S...