San Francisco approves $700-a-month sleeping pods in former bank.

Cheaper. Only poors live like that

it makes housing generally cheapwr, while those places will still be higher in price compared to places fuethwr away from the hustle and bustle. The idea is to increase housing access overall which drives down prices overall and it makes the roads less congested since less people have to travel from places zoned only for housing to places zoned only for commercial use. !slots200

i live in a newer single family home and it's full of ramps, automatic doors, braille, and elevators. i cannot get contractors to remove them as that breaks ADA guidelines. it's like cookie banners and opt out modals but for buildings.

If we just said f it you can start building NYC walkups and Chicago courtyard apartments to 1900 safety standards using modern materials, I'd say anywhere between 40-60% reduction in cost. And don't tell me these buildings would inherently be death traps. If they were the city wouldn't let people live in them today, but they do. Japan's at the extreme end in terms of allowing densely packed structures. Even accounting for rigorous earthquake reinforcement and high base land price, new apartment construction in Tokyo is around $180 per sq ft while the USA sits somewhere closer to $350. Chalk that up to builders having to devote more money to non-revenue spaces (corridor halls and multiple interior staircases).

The ADA also is at play here. Go into a newly built apartment bathroom in Europe or Asia and they'll feel tiny by comparison. This is because the ADA requires a certain number of units to have bathrooms be built large enough for someone in a large wheelchair to fully spin and maneuver within it, so builders have to devote that much more space. And once you make one unit with a larger bathroom, because of how structural walls work, you're going to make them all this large.

Elevators are another great example.. Read that if you want to rage about rent seeking, unions, and building codes. They're about three times as much here as anywhere else in the developed world because of these codes. Euros can have a box for one or two standing people. Burgers have to be able to fit two standing paramedics and someone on a stretcher. Legitimately that's what the standard requires. And then the little things. Gone are the days in the past when you could get away with your elevator having an emergency call button or a phone. Now the code requires they be built with two-way audio and video screens because we don't want someone who is mute and deaf to be unable to actively communicate that they are stuck, despite the old system of simply pressing the emergency button over and over again until someone shows up being perfectly fine, adding an extra $5,000 per elevator plus maintenance. Sum all these tiny code requirements leads to a whole bundle of woe.

A last thing that I'm not even seeing anyone begin to address is that the way we're trying to fix the housing crisis is going to make things worse. The codes favor wood-framed cheap structures and that's what activists are lobbying for. The issue is that these things are so terribly built that they'll have to come down in a few decades anyway. If all buildings have a thirty year lifespan we can increase housing stock for 30 years, but after that we would spend all of our efforts simply replacing existing buildings. A solid brick and stone structure, something the codes dislike, might cost 2x in up-front costs, but when then can easily last for centuries with you spend much less resources in the long term.

What a pathetic excuse of a city.

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