Name: This Man Pays $508 Per Month to Live in a Box
Uploaded: 2016-03-30
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Description: In his friend’s living room

This Man Pays $508 Per Month to Live in a Box

to live in San Francisco on a limited budget. One man had to think outside of the box and live in one. Peter Berkowitz solved his rent issues by building a box or a pod in the living room of his friend's apartment. In a blog post, he explained, Yes. Living in a pod is silly, but the silliness is endemic to San Francisco's absurdly high housing prices. The pod is just a solution that works for me and for his wallet, considering he spends $400 each month to live there, along with the one time cost of $1300 to build the pod. That puts his monthly rent costs for the first year at about $508 which is kind of a steel in the most expensive US city for a single person. Berkowitz was inspired with Japanese capsule hotels, where people basically rent a place to sleep and little else, he adds. It's the coziest bedroom I've ever had. It's the only bed I've had with a full down desk, a slanted cushion backboard in uniformly ideal light