The company, Brownstone Shared Housing, operates out of a former bank in downtown San Francisco.
Brownstone also operates a similar shared living space in Palo Alto near the campus of Stanford University.
San Francisco officials flagged the company last year for unauthorized conversion of an office building for residential.
San Francisco startup offering pod-based living accomodations for $700 a month says demand is through the roof.Christina Lennox / Brownstone Shared Housing
Communal living situations are not unusual in San Francisco.
Brownstone has not been the subject of any such allegations.
Shows like HBOsSilicon Valleyhave glamorized these types of living situations.
And to be sure, the affordable housing crisis will require a whole host of creative solutions.
If youre a young and sexless male it might be fine for a little while.
But people should be able to go home at night to their own private abode.
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