Brownstone, by virtue of renting cheaply in a city with sky-high prices and a dearth of new housing, has received thousands of applications for its $700-a-month pods over the past few years, Stallworth said. He thinks there’s at least “10,000 people probably interested in being in San Francisco at any time” and pointed to the tens of thousands of applications that Y Combinator, a local startup incubator, has received in recent years.(Startup founders make up a sizable share of the Mint Plaza building’s residents, Stallworth said.) Startup behind $700-a-month bed ‘pods’ wants to put 10,000 more in San Francisco – https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/startup-bed-pods-san-francisco-21029460.php
I keep telling The Boss all I’m trying to do is to make our retirement income last as long as we last.
Rejected. Again.
lifeunderwriter.net 
Would construction like this help the homeless problem that exists now in so many places?
Maybe. As transitional shelter combined with other programs as a starting point to get people off the streets. Here’s an example of an organization and approach in OKC.
https://inasmuchfoundation.org/how-public-private-partnership-creating-solutions-unhoused-oklahoma-city
That is so interesting. I wish more cities would adopt similar strategies.