California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartments

Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by mc32 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:57PM (#19734257)

Look, what’s going to happen? Garages prove to be a safety valve, it’ll become a new normal that allows this “can” of housing issues to get kicked down the road. I don’t see how this helps.

It’s not all that different from saying allow six to a room or something. Sure, it increases “density” but it’s not a solution.

One of their examples is garages in the mission (SF). Those things are low ceiling, dingy, etc. Students might be okay. Not grown adults. Like I said, it’d become a new normal, an accepted solution. But it’s not a solution. It just postpones things and makes sub-par acceptable.

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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by Zenbit_UX on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @09:24PM (#19734764)

Tackling a solution from multiple angles isn't a con.

If I had the choice of a garage in SF or a 2h commute to my barrista job for a something more in my price range it would be a no brainer. You're dismissing a good idea because it doesn't help you personally... I expert more from HN commenters than "no because this doesn't benefit me or conform to my world view".

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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by tiew9Vii on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:23PM (#19735027)

Not the US or SF. Been to a few converted garages in Sydney AU advertised as “Duplex’s” or “Granny flats”.

Small, dingy, cheaply done so the owner can earn as much money as possible renting it out. Garages are designed mainly as a storage room or just big enough to squeeze an average sized car in, newer builds you would struggle fitting a car in. Fitting a bathroom, bed, kitchen in? Not a nice place to live.

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