Affordable Housing: That Pod is Gonna Run You $800 a Month

I guess $800 is “affordable” when compared to $8,000. But this this really “housing”?

WXYZ:

14 people living in one 3-bedroom house — it’s part of a new concept to make housing affordable in California.

Rent for a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom house in Palo Alto would normally run up to $8,000 per month.

Residents here are paying $800 monthly while they share amenities and sleep in pods.

“Our pods are actually 8 feet tall, so it gives enough room for like bigger people and like also some wiggle room, so they’re not like the Japanese capsules. They’re a bit larger,” said Christina Lennox, who co-founded Brownstone Shared Housing.

No, they’re not like the Japanese capsules.

The Japanese capsules, however, are not in single family homes. Putting 14 people into a single family home in a suburb would have been illegal in a sane age, but the plan is to normalize this, and remove the idea of the “single family home,” so that every family neighborhood can be flooded with offensive midrise apartment buildings. After all, if the lot that house is on had a 12 story tenement, they could be paying $800 for a studio with their own bathroom instead of a pod.