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Related: About this forumHigh Bay Area rent prices drive mom to raise child in a garage
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/03/04/high-bay-area-rent-prices-drive-mom-to-raise-child-in-a-garage/When Jones became pregnant she lost her job and could no longer afford to pay her apartment rent. She initially moved into a shelter and felt lucky when she found the single-car garage space converted into a studio in a San Mateo suburban home for $1,000 a month.
Her small home consists of a central living space that serves as a living room, bedroom and kitchen as well as a tiny bathroom with a shower and toilet. She cooks in a microwave perched on top of a clothing cabinet; she sleeps on a pull-out couch.
This is pretty much all I could get, she told CNN.
I mean, okay, Apple started in a garage, but a family?!
whathehell
(29,075 posts)and has been for some time. It's very discouraging.
They can't seem to get a serious affordable housing program to take root,
and, to my knowledge they've been trying for decades.
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kimbutgar
(21,173 posts)But I would do this as a last result.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I'm up for a job up there, oddly enough, as an affordable housing advocate.
kimbutgar
(21,173 posts)But I don't need a renter yet. Sorry.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)in or around the Tenderloin. But that's what I would do.
Auggie
(31,177 posts)$365,000 for a beautiful one bedroom w/ 1.5 baths and formal dining plus eat-in kitchen, and optional tandem parking for an extra $15,000 in one of San Francisco's best neighborhoods.
The down payment on $380,000 would have wiped out my retirement account. And the monthly payment, with management fees, would have been hard to make on my own. But I'd have a unit worth more than four times what my retirement account is worth right now.
*sigh*
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I would think it should have to be fully enclosed with a real wall.