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Illegal Housing

conarb

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[QUOTE='Liberty Blitzkrieg]The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure. Legal? No, but he’s eluded code enforcers who rousted what he calls cargotopia from two other sites. If all goes according to plan, he’ll get a startup out of his response to the most expensive U.S. housing market.“It’s not making us much money yet, but it allows us to live in the Bay Area, which is a feat,” said Iseman, 31, who’s developing a container-house business. “We have an opportunity here to create a new model for urban development that’s more sustainable, more affordable and more enjoyable.”

As many as 60,000 San Franciscans live in illegal housing, according to the Department of Building Inspection.¹

[/QUOTE]The 60,000 is San Francisco, this is Oakland, I wonder how many people total in the Bay Area are living in illegal housing? San Francisco Building Department admits to 60,000, is Oakland Building Department doing anything about these boxes? Apparently not, I guess all they care about is crippled people getting into swimming pools in fancy hotels.

Fly over the area, 99% of it is vacant land but the government owns most of it and the environmentalists won't let us build on it, if we could regulations would drive the costs through the roof.

¹ http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/08/03/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-san-fran-residents-pay-1000-a-month-to-live-in-shipping-containers/
 
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