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Life in a rented sleeping pod

Original post made on Sep 27, 2023

Culinary student Karthik Manjappa arrived in the Bay Area with two suitcases and $1,000 in his bank account -- not nearly enough to rent an apartment. The solution? His own private sleeping pod located in a shared home in Palo Alto.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 4:58 PM

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Posted by The Palo Alto Kid
a resident of Ventura
on Sep 27, 2023 at 7:11 pm

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Can you imagine trying to get some sleep with all of those people in the same room? The noise of people coming and going, fiddling with their laptops and devices, snoring!, etc., etc.

And just wait until the flu and covid come sweeping through a few times.

No thanks. Not for me. Never. Ever.


Posted by scott
a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 27, 2023 at 8:15 pm

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This city has been meticulously fostering housing market dysfunction, which, by all rights should have forced all of these kids into homelessness. Lennox and Stallworth are heroes, in my opinion.

If anyone reading this story is uncomfortable that this is what it takes to house people with any kind of economy in this town, consider supporting ending apartment prohibition citywide.


Posted by Resident11
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Sep 28, 2023 at 1:07 pm

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Maybe I am an outlier but I would have tried this when I was young and had little money. I might even have liked it. There is a lot to be said for the community that this type of housing creates and that is evident from the reporting.


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