Why don't we put some of these up in Greenwich, and tell the Hartford levelers to pound sand?

You can rent a ‘bunk bed pod’ in the Bay Area with 13 people for $800 a month

Brownstone Shared Housing posted an ad for anyone looking to live in Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley and the home of Stanford University.

Tenants are given the opportunity to shack up in a house with 13 other people. They sleep in a “bunk bed pod” while sharing two bathrooms.

The pods are “fully equipped” with electrical outlets, shelves for books, a rack from which one can hang clothes and laundry, hooks to hang plants and other decorations, and black curtains at the end of each pod for privacy.

Normally, the three-bedroom home would house a single family.

The startup is also advertising “co-living” spaces in another home — this one in Bakersfield. The home offers a pod for $500 a month alongside five other residents.

Brownstone Shared Housing, like another California-based company PodShare, offers “flexible month-to-month leases” with no security deposit.

The state’s “affordable housing” law demands that 10% of a town’s housing stock must not cost more than a set amount per month, but it doesn’t require that anyone actually live in those units. We could erect 1000-yard warehouses along our train tracks — proximity to mass transit is another of the demands by our betters – and partition them into rentable cubby holes. Presto, problem solved.

Ideally, though, I’d prefer to see a project like this go up in Belle Haven, with hourly municipal bus service provided.