{"id":2637,"date":"2016-04-14T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/san-francisco-man-forced-to-vacate-box-in-friends-apartment\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:25:10","slug":"san-francisco-man-forced-to-vacate-box-in-friends-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/san-francisco-man-forced-to-vacate-box-in-friends-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco man forced to vacate box in friend's apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sky-high cost of housing in San Francisco isn’t a new story, but it got a new twist this week as a man has been told it’s illegal for him to rent a 32-square-foot plywood box in his friend’s living room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 99-year-old San Francisco woman wins the right to stay in her apartment (for now)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Peter Berkowitz, who built the pod in a friend’s living room and rented the space for $400 a month, became the new face of San Francisco’s housing insanity when his story<\/a> hit the Internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It led to an editorial<\/a>\u00a0in which Berkowitz called the box a “pod” and added, “I have all the essentials and then some; privacy, a comfortable place to work due to a fold down desk, perfect light for reading and a tastefully calm place to be in.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The sky-high cost of housing in San Francisco isn’t a new story, but it got a new twist this week as a man has been told it’s illegal for him to rent a 32-square-foot plywood box in his friend’s living … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1837,1836,1741,1112],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-housing-crisis","tag-rent","tag-san-francisco","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}