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Re:The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) by nine_k on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:16PM (#31585865)
But aren't 200 sq ft apartments banned because they are unlivably small? The guys who enacted that should take a look at Tokyo and Seoul, and maybe actually listen to the reasons of people who rent tiny apartments there.
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Re:The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) by s1artibartfast on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:30PM (#31586101)
They are objectively livable in a literal sense. But, yes I agree that some policy makers decided that they would rather have people homeless than in unpleasant living accommodations.
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Re:The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) by marvin on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @06:10PM (#31588792)
Studio apartments of that size (sometimes even smaller) are bought by university students in Norway all the time, sometimes for as much as $200.000. They can be quite comfortable.

Not sure how they’d be priced in SF, but to my intuition that seems out of working homelesss range. In cheaper cities though, definitely.

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Re:The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) by s1artibartfast on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @08:24PM (#31589860)
These places are illegal to offer in sf. There is a minimum allowance for size
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