City of San Francisco says it's illegal to live in a box

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!!

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Box-living-Peter-Berkowitz-pod-San-Francisco-7243988.php

Last month, the story of a 25-year-old man who's living inside a plywood box parked in his friend's living room became the latest installment in San Francisco's crazy housing market.

In a city where the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is currently $3,590, Peter Berkowitz's tale of paying only $400 a month in rent and squeezing into some 32-square-feet of space became the stuff of legend....

After media outlets across the country covered the story and the London Guardian ran an editorial by Berkowitz, he began hearing from people who wanted to live in similar humble, inexpensive accommodations. Berkowitz announced in a story on Hoodline this week that he would begin selling custom pods.

Those plans were quickly stopped by the San Francisco's chief housing inspector Rosemary Bosque who told Hoodline that "pods are illegal and a violation of housing, building, and fire safety codes."

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I was expecting this.

That box just looked like it was begging for fire safety citations. A moveable set of partitions with better egress probably would have been fine for fire safety.